£20,000

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16494, 11 November 1927, Page 2

£20,000

WON BY AUCKLANDERS STORY OP A "STRANGE DREAM" (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. '£20,000! How iloos it feci like to •win it.' Two Aueklanders, who won a Melbourne Cup sweep for that amount, have-experienced it. whereas most folk have got no nearer to it than a dream. Mr. S. Adeane and Mr. I'. O'Brien, to whom this good'fortune came two days ago, are still going on with the job—Mr. Adeane, in his shirt sleeves managing the affairs of fi pvintcry in Hobson street and Mr. P. O'Brien, his partner, oiit in the tommy on a business? tonv. > When the neds came through, Mr. Adeline sav.-i lie was not disturbed in the least, and \vhc-n ho telegraphed his partner Mr. O'Brien, the kttei had cnlv a slight ?hoek. '•I'll tell you il all came about;" ssiis Mr. Adeane •with a quizzical smile. "There is romance in il. "We had a little bit of luck, my partner auif 1. being gamblers in a small way. We won a pound or two over the National meeting, so my partner was keen to have a ' pot' at the sweep, thinking it might be our lucky year, and thinking thai we might as well try the big stuff as the small, if our luck was going to hold. We sent for two tickets in the £1 consultation •'TI was about here thai dhe little romance came in. One morning before "J came down to work, my wife told me of a strange dream that I had struck a double for £.IOOO. Of course, I laughed at the idea, but 1 made a mental note of it, wid when I got to ■work, and my partner talked about .the sweojfcl told him .what Mrs Adeane had dreamt, and then nothing would .stop him. "►So we sent to an address, and I forgot about everything until after the race. The mail, came in and I was plugging away at my job, and was too busy to attend to the letter so I tossed it on the otHee table for my daughter and went on working. She opened it and, of course, when she saw our'number against Trivalvo she made slight noises about it, but I wouldn't 'fall' for it and kept, on with,my job. I kept 'on working until she tricked me with the story that she could not get some proofs to agree, so then I came in and there it was. "It did not disturb me a bit. I did the only sane thing. I rang up the bank manager and when I found that there was a mail to Australia that night 1 just sent the ticket duly endorsed and everything. "So that is the story of how a Melbourne Cup sweep came to Auckland." Mr. Adeane follows the horses fairly closely. His father was the owner of the horse on which "Jimmy" Buchanan had his first win in Cisbonie 35 years ago. , One of the partners in the above big prize, Mr. Adeane, 13 an exGisborne boy. He was born in Gisborne, where he received his schooling,later going to Auckland, where he entered the printing trade as a linotype operator. He was at one time a proprietor of one of the printeries there, and is now a partner in another printing business. Relatives of his are living in Gisborne. A syndicate in the Sydney City Council cleansing department, headed by a member with the appropriate name of "Lueh," drew Trivalvo in a £20,000 consultation. The luck of the town hall in sweepstakes since the year opened has been extraordinary. One syndicate won £SOOO, and another shared a second prize of £IOOO.