£6000 Prize After Death
■ ■ ■ Winner of the £0000 lirst prize in the X.S.W. lotterv drawn 011 Septembev 2, 72-year-old Walter Goodman West ren, an old age pensioner, died suddenly | the previous day. As reporters called at his hoine in I Sudbury Street,' Belmore, with news of the.,- win, telegrams of condoleuoe iwere being delivered. Arrangements for a service and ! burial were being completed as Mr : West ren 's marble' was drawn from the . lotterv barrel. j Told of her father's win at the front |door of their neat Iningalow, Aliss Nita Westren brokc down and sobbed: "JMy God, he's dead! He waited all his life to win the big prize." 1SI r E. Mclvenzie, Mr Westren 's sou-in-law, said: "We wisli he hadh't wou the. big prize. It has been niost disturbing to tlie family. It won't do any- | one any good. It was an ambition he acliieved a day too late. " No otlier lirst prize winner has died before a drawing. A Lotterv Oflice aflicial said tliere would be uo difliculty about .paying the liioney. lt would go to Mr Westren " esiate as soon as the will was adnutted to probate.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 September 1949, Page 6
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