BIG SWEEP WINNERS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4999, 12 July 1926, Page 3

BIG SWEEP WINNERS.

RECENT EVENTS IN ENGLAND.*

A.-GIRL’S £30,000.

The unexpected second place of Laiicegaye in- the Derby, provided a surprise win of £30,000 for Miss Alexa. Farr,'a pretty blonde,, aged 21, who drew the ticket for the horse in the tSock Exchange sweepstake (says a, llondon paper). . ,

Far some l time Miss Farr lived with her pa.rents at 34 Cleveland Gardens, Bayswater, and left there last January, to go to the south of Fra ; nce. Stic had .already bought a house in Gloucester Square, Bayswater, but this is still empty and in the. hands of decorators.

Miss Farr was in a West End kinema-.when the news of. the; Derby <was flashed on the,screen. Mr Robert Bishop, of Bedford Road, ■East Finchley, N., head df the policy .department of Hartley, Cooper, ajnd Co.; Ltd., Cornh'ill. the man who drew Coronach in the Calcutta sweepstake, ■said to be worth £120,000, .walked from 'the station to his home, a typical suburban villa, in the pouring rain '.last night, carrying, a bag and tun.btella, contentedly smoking a. pipe, -and appearing as if he'.were .oblivious of the fact that he had won a fortune- . It is understood that Mr Bishop retained an eighth" interest in his ticket -and won; .about £23,000.-

Mr Bishop remained in his office while the race was being, run, and after hearing the news by telephone toft within a. fe\y minutes by a back entrance on “official leave.”

The Baltic sweepstake, valued at '£Booo, ■ has "been won by Mr Percy •Philliips, a form'er Welsh international Rugby football player, and a ’shipping:'agent. He sold half his ■ ticket last w"eek to Mr X. E. Jones, a 'commission agent, for £725.