LUCKY FRED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 173, 15 March 1932, Page 7

LUCKY FRED

GFFICE BOY WHO BOUGHT TWO FIRST PRIZES IN LOTTERY SYDNEY, Wednesday. Since a ticket bought by "Lucky Fred," office boy at the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute, Sydney, drew the first lottery prize for the second time in succession, hundreds of telephon® requests for tickets have heen received at the office of the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institution. When he went to the Lottery Office to-day to get another batch of tickets, he was mobbed by the crowd apd, to use his own words "just got out alive." This afternoon he was taken to the office in a closed car — the only way he could be got there in safety. To date he has received more than 1,000 letters, at least 500 arriving to-day. Yesterday he received 150 telephope calls. Yet he says he wont buy a ticket because "he can't spare the money." He could easily get the price of a ticket if he liked. Tickets bought by him recently have won more than £11,000, and he has been rushed by people offering him up to £5 to buy their tickets. They wait for him Qjitside the

office door now, and "Lucky Fred," when he takes the mail to the G.P.O., has to leave by a back door in a closed taxi. The reason of this is that when "Lucky Fred" started to oblige these strangers the other day, it toqk him two hours to get from the offipe in Castlereagh Street to the G.P.O. and back. In successive lotteries, tickets given free to helpers by the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institution have won first prize — a true "Million To One Chance." If a person sells 24 sixpenny tickets in the organisation's art union, which is to be drawn, he or she is given a half-share in a lottery ticket. Thus the pairs who won the £5,000 in the 34th and 35th lotteries are strangers to each other. The institution buys about 300 tickets in each lottery, and these batphes, bought by "Lucky Fred," have never won less than 10 prizes.