BEGGING APPEALS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1932, Page 2

BEGGING APPEALS

TO SWEEPSTAKE WINNERS. AUCKLAND, November 18. Hundreds of begging letters have been received by Mr J. E. Comes of Mount Eden, and his son, Mr J. W. B. Cornes, of Mount Roskill, winners of a £IO,OOO prize in the Irish Free State sweepstake on the. Cesarewitch Stakes, run at Newmarket, England, last month.

Scores of people have written asking for gifts of £-5, £lO, and larger sums up to £IOO. The 00-rnes’ letter boxes are filled twice daily with letters offering to sell then motor-cars, yachts, nine and ten-roomed houses, grocery and boot shop®, sheep and diairy farms and with Requests for contributions to charitable institutions, picnics and Christmas treats for children. One man. wrote asking for £l5O to enable him to take his wife and family for a holiday. He said that he was earning only £2 a week, and had seven children to support. They would all be greatly benefited in, health if they could have a good holiday. When the £l5O failed to arrive, the wife wrote to the Cornes a curt letter reprimanding them, for lack of sympathy, and demanding the money immediately.