IRISH SWEEPSTAKE DRAWN.
TWO MEN DIVIDE £204,764. (rXITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY CLSCTBTC TEXjBQRAPD—COPTBIOMT.) (Received November 23rd, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 22. Two clerks in the Ministry of Agriculture of Northern Ireland divide £204,764 as a result of holding the winning ticket in the Irish T - ?e State sweepstake on the Manchestc: November Handicap. An earlier message said that now Turf problems had arisen from tlio Irish Sweepstakes. At least two ticketholders for runners were threatened that unless they paid respectively £BOO nnd £SOO their horses would not start. This form of blackmail was facilitated by the publication of the names and addresses of the drawors of horses.
WIN FOR CANADIAN.
£81,900 SECOND PRIZE
(Received November 23rd, 5.5 p.m.)
VANCOUVER, November 22.
Mr A. P. Dawc, aged 35 years, who was born at Vancouver, received the big surprise of hio lifetime oil Saturday when he received a cable informing him that he had won £81,900, the second prize in the Irish Free tatate sweepstake.
Mr Dawo is the proprietor of an automobile garago. Ho announced immediately tliat he would clear off the mortgage and then deed the business to his two youthful employees. Mr Dawc i 3 planning a long holiday trip. i
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11
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