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Friday, May 12, 1972
FIRST GOVERNMENT LOTTERY THIS YEAR
Tickets On Sale
Tickets for the first Government lottery this year, the 47th in
the series will be on sale this Monday, May 15.
The winning numbers will be drawn three weeks later on Saturday,
June 3, at 10 a.m. in the City Hall Concert Hall.
Tickets are still at $2 each. They may be bought at The Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank, the Chartered Bank, the Dao Heng Bank, the Hang Seng Bank,
the Overseas Trust Bank, the Hong Kong Chinese Bank, the Kwong On Bank, the
Liu Chong Hing Bank, the Shanghai Commercial Bank, the Wing On Bank, the
Bank of East Asia, the Mercantile Bank, the Hong Kong Industrial and
Commercial Bank, the Commercial Bank of Hong Kong, the Wing Lung Bank,
and ferry piers of the Hong Kong and Yaumati Co.
As in the past, there will be 56 prizes and for every 1,000 tickets
sold, one special prize of $100.
The first prize will amount to 30 per cent of the total proceeds,
and each of the five second prizes will amount to two per cent. There will
be 50 prizes each worth 0.3 per cent of the total proceeds.
A special three digit number will be drawn and every ticket which
has this number as its last three digits will win a special prize.
The winning numbers will be published in an extraordinary issue of
the Government Gazette on June 5, and the prizes will have to be claimed
within two years from that day.
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