WINNER OF £30,000.

Waikato Times, Volume 120, Issue 19946, 24 July 1936, Page 8

WINNER OF £30,000.

YOUNQ MAN’S LUCK. IRISH ART UNION. (By Telegraph - rm« association.) DUNEDIN, Thursday. Advice was received in Dunedin "tonight that Mr E. A. T. Johnstone, a plasterer,'of Dunedin, had won the first prize of £30,000 in an Irish Free j State art union. i Mr Johnstone could not be located I to-night, but he is described as a ; young man who has recently been looking for work under the Govern- ! ment’s placement scheme. A PLASTERER’S LABOURER. TO CONTINUE IN WORK. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Friday. Mr A. E. T. Johnstone, winner of £30.000 in the Irish Sweep, is a single ! man aged 22. He is working at his trade as a plasterer’s labourer this j morning and avowed no intention of j giving it up as it. was the only business except farming lie knew anything about. He received advice of the windfall last night from the- man from whom he bought the ticket at Titnaru five months ago. Four years ago when in Auckland he had the opportunity of buying two tickets in the Irish sweep and bought one but was dissuaded from buying the other. The latter was taken by a syndicate of six who won a £30,000 prize. Mr Johnstone lias been only intermittently employed and was drawing to-day his first week’s pay for some time. His mother lives in Invercargill and his father died when he was only six. He has in Dunedin a married sister with three young children.