£10,000 PRIZE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 42, 12 November 1937, Page 6

£10,000 PRIZE

Windfall for Three Dunedin Girls MELBOURNE CUP SWEEP ftWe offer you heai',* congratulations to you as holders of ticket No. 161968, issued in the name of 'Fed-np Quads' in the £1 sweep on the Melbourne Cup, which number drew a cash prize of £10,000." This was the thrilling ■ announcement that greeted three Dunedin girls on opening an air-mail letter on Friday (says a Dunedin corresp.ondent Tlie fortunate girls are Misses Win Finlayson, Phyllis Parker, and Dorothy Surgenor, all employees of Jay's cake shops. The fourth member of the syndicate is Mrs Surgenor, mother of one of the girls, who is spending a koliday at Middlemarch. She did not receive the glad tidings until her daughter telegraphed her in the evening. Needless to say, both of the cake shops were the scenes of great exeitement all the afternoon, for every member of the s^aff seemed to derive equal pleasure from the syndicate's success. When a reporter called at the Princes street shop he had not announced the purport of his call befoTe one of tliq girls concerned, apparently sensing his mission, left her place behind the counter to find sanctuary in tho kitchen. Prevailed upon by her fellow-employees to overcome her shyness of publicity, she returned to the shop to confess to the reporteT that sflie could not believe she had won the money. This girl, Miss Surgenor, said that her ambition was to malte a trip. to England, where she had numerous friends an.d relatives. One thing slie was sure.of, she said, was that as soon as the money arrived she would say "good^bye" to work. ... * . The exeitement of flheir fellow workers liad obviously infected the other employees in the shop and- the George street shop, at which Misses Finlayson' and Parker are employed in the ieing department, was- also. a. scene of exeitement. Both these members of the syn-' dieate were too .excited .to) discuss the-. future, except that Miss Finlayson said that as soon as the secured her slhdre of the. £10,000 -she was going to .Auckland for a long holiday. Miss Finlayson confessed that she had tickets in nea.rly every fortnightly sweepstake recently,* but other membr-3 of the syndicate were particiating for the first time. . . .... . The ' members of the syndicate, it was stated,, .-were feeling a little . d.espondent at .the time the ticket .was bought, ' whicjh accounts for ■ the name they chose. ' ; . . . /