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Nought!
It’s a dull game putting money into lotteries month after month and winning nothing. But the kind of excitement a Fiji laundryman felt when he opened the mail and found he had won $lO,OOO in an Australian lottery, we can all do without.
Mr. Santosh from Lautoka had bought a ticket in a Melbourne lottery. He received notice from the lottery organisers which seemed to indicate he had won $lO,OOO and which advised him to fill in a statutory declaration about his ticket purchase.
The lottery agent handling Mr.
Santosh’s subsequent claim for the money checked an official prize list from Melbourne to find the prize drawn by the ticket was, in fact, only $lO.
An agency spokesman said it was bad luck that there had been too many noughts.
Mr. Santosh could only sigh and agree.