£12,000 PRIZE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22367, 14 September 1934, Page 10

£12,000 PRIZE

DUNEDIN MEN’S LUCK FIRST PRIZE IN SWEEPSTAKE £1250 TO AUCKLAND (Per United Press Association.! AUCKLAND, September 13. New Zealand subscribers won the first and third prizes in the £12,000 consultation sweepstake drawn on Wednesday in Hobart, Tasmania, under Government supervision. According to private advice received in Auckland the ticket which won the first prize of £12,000 was No. 29,000, held in the name of “ Hopeful Syndicate,” care A, W. H., Roslyn, Dunedin. The winner of the third prize of £1250 was G. T., of Freeman’s Bay, Auckland, whose ticket was No. 100,078. UNEXPECTED WINDFALL TWO HARBOUR BOARD EMPLOYEES At the Otago Harbour Board picnic last March a decision was arrived at by two employees of the board which, resulted in Their winning the sum of £12,000 this week. It is not often that first prize in a Tattersall’s consultation comes to Dunedin, but that is what happened last • night, and it brought the best- news they have hoard for many years to Messrs A. W. Henderson and A. Cranshaw, who held the winning ticket. No. 29,060. It was at the Harbour Board’s picnic that Messrs Henderson and Cranshaw decided to buy tickets regularly, and they then formed themselves into the “ Hopeful Syndicate.” For six months their hope remained unfulfilled, although they were investing at the rate of two tickets each month, until last night, and even then they were not aware of it until Mr Henderson was informed by a Daily Times reporter at 9.30 p.m. The ticket was in the name of Mr Henderson, who lives at 27 Bruce street, Roslyn, and it was only afteV a search lasting an hour and a-half that the reporter vfas able to find his house. When he did it was some time before the door was opened, because Mr Henderson was in bed. On being informed of his good fortune he quickly imparted the news to his wife, who had come to the door wondering what was the matter, and it was a very casual husband and a rather excited wife who accompanied the reporter to the city to find the other member of the syndicate. When hia boarding house in Stafford street was visited, however, he was not at home, and he will probably not be aware of his stroke of luck until this morning. Mr and Mrs Henderson, who have three children, have not yet decided what they will do with their share of the £12,0(10, hut as the former said to the reporter, “You can be sure it won’t be wasted.” It is a particularly opportune windfall, since Mr Henderson, who is employed aboard the Harbour Board’s dredge Otakou, has been working only four days a week this year, and last year worked only three days a week. If the parents have no definite plans for the use of their unexpected wealth, however, the children have, since the first thing their son said when he was told the good news was, “ Now we’ll be able to buy a motor car.” Mr Henderson is a young man, and Mr Cranshaw, who is a member of the shore staff of the Harbour Board, is a bachelor of middle age.

In recent months Dunedin residents have secured a number of the larger prizes in the Hobart consultation. The last occasion on which the first prize came to this city was in December last, when Miss M'Gregor held the winning ticket, which then represented a value of £6OOO. In April, Mr Cusack, of Cutten street, drew a prize of £2OOO, and last month two employees of Messrs M'Lcod Bros, won £1250.