£2OO ART UNION PRIZE
Two Gisborne ticket-holders in the “Pot Luck" art union, drawn in Wellington last evening, believed themselves this morning to be the winners: of a £2OO prize. Under the pseudonym of “Peanuts," both took tickets from: a well-known Peel street seller, and both took steps to check the numbers of their tickets when the name Ithey had chosen turned up in the draw. One of the claimants' was Mr. Humphrey Robinson, Fox street, and the other was Mr. W. Shaskey, who is best known in the isports world as l featherweight amateur boxing champion of New Zealand, who held (he ticket in partnership with a friend. Mr. Shaskey was believed to have received official advice of his success 1 in the draw overnight, and his claim had the support to-day of the vendor from whom be purchased the ticket.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 26 August 1939, Page 3
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142£200 ART UNION PRIZE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 26 August 1939, Page 3
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