SIX DUNEDIN PEOPLE WIN £50,000
DUNEDIN, Yesterday (P.A.)—Six members of the maintenance staff of Sawyer’s Bay Tanneries accepted very calmly this morning the news of their win of £50,000 in Tattersall’s second Melbourne Cup consultation—in fact three members of the syndicate stopped work for about 20 minutes only to congratulate one another, and then returned to their morning’s work. Their wives would learn of the news when they went home for dinner. Of the others, only one showed any excitement, and he was soon calmed by the stoic manner of his companions in the venture. A fifth returned home to finish the week-end washing, and he was the only one to have a “quick one” in the local hotel, while the last person to be seen by a “Star" reporter carried on with the presentation of trophies to competitors in a St. John Ambulance competition. The prize winners are Messrs. H. G. Wilson, J. H. Woodward, D. I. Gray, T. A. Harkness, G. T. Abrahams, and J. Beriand. All are members of the maintenance staff of the tanneries at Sawyer’s Bay, and intend to continue in their present jobs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 November 1949, Page 4
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