SWEEP WINNERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 84, 30 November 1931, Page 5

SWEEP WINNERS

(Press. Assn.—

baby, widow and labourer win £30,000 prizes

-By Telegraph— Copyright).

Rec. Nov. 29, 7.25 p.m. MANCHESTER, Friday. Ticket holders in the Irish Sweepstake residing in the Home Counties won £230,000, four big prizes going elsewhere in England, four to Scotland, two to Canada, and one each to Ireland and South Africa. A ticket in the name of an eleven months' old baby, Jean Blyth, drew North Drift and won £30,000. The purchaser, Mrs Moss, of Chester, is Jean's grandmother and shares half the ticket with Jean's mother. They sold half to North Drift's owner for £700. R ,W. Macey, of Faversham, a labourer, became a teetotaller when the price of beer went up. He saved his pennies and bought a'ticket on which he won £30,000 on North Drift, with which he intends to bring back his sons from America where they are unsuecessful.

Mrs Tuckwell who was unemployed in London and a widow, wins £15,000 after selling half her ticket for £800. The first action of Mrs Barlcer, aged 77 years, who won £15,000 on Signifier, will be to take her husband to visit her son's war grave in France. Forty Irish road menders and several guards whose tickets were too late for the Derby were transferredto the November Handicap and won £60 a-piece.