A LUCKY TICKET.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 9

A LUCKY TICKET.

How Mrs Grigsby Came to Buy it. HAD DROPPED PARCEL. It was a most fortunate mishap for Mrs Mary Grigsby, wife of Mr W. F. Grigsby, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, St Albans, when she dropped a parcel in High Street just outside Wool worths, recently. A seller of Fixst Aid Art Union tickets picked up the parcel, and to repay his courtesy, Mrs Grigsby purchased the ticket which gave her the second prize of £SOO. She said to the ticket seller, “ I suppose I might as well buy a ticket off you, now.” This ticket was the only one she held in the Art Union.

SECOND PRIZE WINNER.

Mrs Grysby, of the Caledonian Hotel, Christchurch, who secured the second prize of £SOO in the First Aid Art Union, which was drawn last evening.

Mrs Grigsby, when interviewed today, said that she felt no particular elation at winning the £SOO. “ I do not feel a bit different, but I might have had it been the first prize of £2000,” was the way she expressed herself. Regarding her intentions, Mrs Grigsby said that she would not be taking any trips. Her husband could well do with the money in his business. Certain alterations to the premises had just been completed and had to be paid for out of Mr Grigsby’s own pocket. The prize money would cover this expense comfortably. (A list of prizes win in the Art Union appears on Page 31.)