WHEN FORTUNE SMILED
ART UNION TAKES SURPRISE TO PAHIATUA MRS. STONE’S £2,000 WIN In a mild way, the small town of Pahiatua. which nestles at the foot of the Tararua Ranges, has been en fete. There has been no public holiday, but an abundance of general pleasure has been in the air concerning the drawing of the winning ticket of £2,000 in the Auckland Aero Club’s art union by Mrs. Stone, a well-known identity of that town.
It is learned that it is many years indeed since such a rich lottery favoured the district, and when fortune smiled upon a resident who has lived in Pahiatua for nearly 40 years it led to much excitement and hearty congratulations have been innumerable. Mrs. Stone has brought up a family of eight, and with the exception of two in Auckland, all are resident .in Pahiatua.
Quite recently Mrs. Stone completed most satisfactorily another transaction which led her to feel that fortune was on her side. And so, less than a week before the closing date of the art union, she decided to take a ticket, which she obtained through a Napier agency. Mrs. Stone thought little more of the lottery. She had been in dozens during her lifetime, butr had never before met with any success. “Then, could you imagine her excitement and pleasure when a shopkeeper of Pahiatua telephoned her from his shop a little before eight o’clock the morning after the art union was drawn to say that she had, according to a Press message, drawn the £2,000 prize,” said a resident of Pahiatua. According to a pressman in the district, when the first small pang of personal regret had passed, there was general satisfaction among the countless other Pahiatua ticket-holders that Mrs. Stone had been favoured by the turn of fortune’s wheel. Mrs. Stone accepts her unexpected good fortune with her usual beaming smile, and throughout the day, when she was not receiving congratulation on an overworked - telephone, she was accepting the same hearty sentiments from her neighbours and friends.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 814, 7 November 1929, Page 1
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