Crippled Pensioner Winner Of £2000 Art Union
AUCKLAND, Yesterday (PA). —A man who has been keeping himself and his wife on a pension for 20 years and “squatting” in a house at Riverhead for two and a-half years will now be able to buy himself a house. He is Mr. G. Crawford, who won first of £2OOO in the Art Union drawn yesterday. Prevented from working by a strained back, Mr. Crawford moved into the Riverhead house. He tried to trace the owner in the hope of buying it, but could find no one to claim it. With a little money he managed to get together, he bought a section. Now he will be able to do what lack of means prevented before —build a little house for himself and his wife.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 15 October 1948, Page 6
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