IRISH SWEEPSTAKE
GIVING UP HIS JOB. (United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, November 23. When Prescott, a member of the Civil Service at Belfast, who shared the first prize in the Dublin Hospital Sweep reached his home town, lie said “I shall resign my job! I cannot go to. the office and receive the bosses’ orders when I am a forty pound a week man. Besides, I do not want to keep another mail out of a job. I shall return to England. I have been in Ulster for twenty years. There are only my wife and my terrier to share my luck. We shall make a world tour. Prescott landed with his hat pulled clown and his coat collar pulled up. He ordered a couple of beers. He told the barman to keep the chap go out of 20s. '
His wife met him at a friepd’s house. They were afraid to go home, their house being hesoiged all day long. The workshop widow, another prize winner, says that she means, first to help some needy folk whom she knows.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 5
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180IRISH SWEEPSTAKE Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 5
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