What Would You Do?

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 1 February 1935, Page 46

What Would You Do?

New Zealand. Winners: of Lotte: ry Prizes Remain Cool, Calm and Collected : Despite the fact that some lotteries are illegal, they seem to be fiourishing like the proverbial bay tree. By now there are few people in New Zealand who do not know directly or indirectly someone who’. has won a prize, and the interest continues to spread.

In the course of a discussion on this subject the other evening, a Wellington business girl casually remarked that she had a share in a £5 prize from Tasmania, which was the second within a few weeks. She anid that the

second win wasn’t nearly as exciting as the first. One of three girls trem Wooiworth’s, Wellington, who won £250 in a sweep a few days ago said, when a re-porter-asked her if she would disclose

her plans for spending her share, that although excited’ about the win, £85 really wasn’t enough with which: to make plans, but it would he!p ioward a holiday-which goes to show that some girls must have pretty good nolidays! Apparently with the -majority of lucky ones. the more they win, +he more they want, and the bigger tke win the less excitement they show, A baker, not far from Wellington, recently won a fabulous prize in a lottery. but when asked what he was going to do, said he ‘intended to continue baking his sponge cakes! Some people are real puzzles. When are we going.to read an excit-' ing account in the newspapers of a prize-winner doing something -really picturesque and adventur*some-the kind of romantie childhood: dreams: of what would be done with a fortune of a thousand or two if it came in response to a magic wish?