£2000 FOR TWO RABBITS
FATHER’S LOTTERY TICKETS.
DESTITUTE FAMILY’S LUCK.
Sydney, Feb. 13.
Fortune smiled on a destitute family this week, when, with a ticket, which they had received in payment for a pair of rabbits, they won a prize of £2OOO in an art union.
■ Mr. and Mrs. J. Derbyshire, living in Derbyshire Street, Leichhardt, were the lucky winners. Mr. Derbyshire has been out f work for 15 months, and since last October has been hawking rabbits roiind Sydney suburbs ip an effort to make a living for his wife and family of seven. A few days before Christmas Day, 1930, he sold a pair of rabbits to a customer at Annandale, who did not have any cash at the time to pay him. As he was not returning that way for some time and would have found it inconvenient to return for the money, he consented to take as payment .two tickets in the Christinas Box Art Union., He gave them to his wife, as the only. Christmas box he could afford, and when the winning numbers were announced this week discovered that one of the tickets had drawn the first prize, £2OOO. Naturally the family was overjoyed at tlieir good fortune and Mr. Derbyshire has decided to buy a house in Leichhardt and bank the rest of. the money for another "rainy day.” Meanwhile he intends to keep on selling rabbits.
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1931, Page 16 (Supplement)
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