“My deep faith in the Empire’s victory in the cause of justice and righteousness is strengthened by recent brillian victories."—The Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda.
The winner of the first prize of £2OOO in tlie Put and Take art union is Mr R. 11. Brown, aged 82, who has no relatives in New, Zealand and lives nt the Veterans' Home. Mount Roskill. Auckland. Giving a false ago. he enlisted with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in the Great War, and served for three years. Mr Brown did not realise his good fortune till some limo after lie had read that the pseudonym "Veteran” was on the winning ticket. All the inmates of the homo had decided it must be one of their number who had drawn first prize, but it was not till they bad eliminated everybody but one of the veterans who was out that Mr Brown suddenly realised the winning ticket was his. Mr Brown said he had still to decide what lie was going to do with the money. One of his hopes was that he might be able to find his son, whom he had last heard of as being in a ship on the Indian run, and bring him to New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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