PROFESSOR SAID TO HAVE WON £l0,000 OVERSEAS LOTTERY

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 May 1948, Page 5

PROFESSOR SAID TO HAVE WON £l0,000 OVERSEAS LOTTERY

(P.A.) Christchurch, May 4. First prize, of £lO,OOO, in an overseas lottery has apparently been won by Profesor A. H. Tocker, Rector of Canterbury University College and Professor of Economics. The winning ticket was purchased under the pseudonym of “Long Shot.” When Professor Tocker was asked this evening if he could confirm the report that he was the purchaser of the winning ticket he was non-committal, but said finally that he did not know, and had no official information. Asked if he had purchased a ticket under pseudonym of "Long shot,” he said that he had no comment to make. The ticket was purchased from a city tobacconist, R. H. Davis, of 150 Oxford Terrace. For half-an-hour today the trotting writer of “The Press" believed that he held the winning ticket. He had purchased a ticket under the same pseudonym, but found when he returned home that his did not bear the correct number. This is the second time within a week that a winning ticket in the same lottery has been purchased in Christchurch. Las’, week a ticket under the name of “camping syndicate,” held by C. P. Ireland, of Linwood, and four other men, won £lO,OOO. The lottery has now been wort four times in succession by New Zealand ticket-holders.