LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 78, 20 December 1940, Page 7

LUCK ABOUT THE HOUSE

Interview With Art Union Winners

s¢ WENTY-FIVE years I’ve been a battler, and I'll always be one," declared J. R. Nicholson, of Dunedin, husband of the winner of the £3,500 House Art Union. broadcasting over 4ZB an hour after hearing of his wife’s good fortune. For three hours on the Saturday afternoon the Queen Carnival art union prizes were drawn, 4ZB was on the air from the Dunedin Garrison Hall. The station had a particularly busy afternoon, not only carrying out relays direct from the hall, but also locating the winners of the most important prizes. Winners were asked to communicate with 4ZB as soon as they had heard the results, and the wide listening which the station had on this particular afternoon is shown by the fact that almost every holder of a winning ticket ‘phoned the

station within a few minutes of the broadcast. Chief interest naturally centred around the £3,500 house, and 4ZB’s telephone tang incessantly with inquiries for the winner, At 6.45 p.m. the winners appeared in person in the studio, and listeners heard the winner of the house, Mrs. Nicholson, describe her emotions when she heard she had won it. Mr. Nicholson, who was in high spirits, assisted her on the air in an interview which must rank as one of the most humorous ever broadcast from 4ZB. The winners are not monied people, but as Mr. Nicholson himself said, "battlers" Some estimate of the number of people who were probably listening in can be gained from the fact that there were over 800,000 tickets be in the various art unions.