Lucky town

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 9, 2 August 1983, Page 7

Lucky town

Raetihi seems to be gaining the reputation of being a 'lucky' place to live. Several 'wins' over the years and in recent times have created this impression. A month ago 5-year old Ann Boswell won the first prize of $1000 in the ETA 'Cash in your Chips' camDaign when she bought a flKket of chippies from the ^roodmaster supermarket in Raetihi. In the same competition Rhonda Perkins, who works for the Raetihi Borough Council, won a prize of $100 when she bought another packet of chippies from Dowmans Discounter. And now it was the turn of Kevin Dowman when he bought a $20 ticket next door at Boyds Bookshop in

the 'Good-on-you-Kiwi' Encore lottery and won a $13,000 Datsun Sunny saloon car! Kevin, who is 20 and works for his brother Robert at Dowmans Discounter, says that he has had a lot of luck with 'smallish' prizes from the lottery tickets next door — he only buys the 'big ones' and not the ordinary $2 Golden Kiwi tickets. And Garrick Workman of Boyds Bookshop provides further evidence of Raetihi' s lucky streak . . . he says that he sold a 1st prize Golden Kiwi ticket of $60,000 three to four years ago when the tickets cost $1 as well as a 2nd prize of $25,000 about eighteen months ago when the tickets cost $2.