HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?
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Tuesday, May 1, 1973
More than one hundred people in Hong Kong could be thousands of
dollars richer if they still hold winning tickets from government lotteries
drawn up to two years ago.
A spokesman for the Government Lotteries Management Committee
revealed today that over $1.8 million in prize money from lotteries held in
1971 and last year had still not been claimed.
He said that more than 3,680 people had failed to collect their
prizes. Of these 122 held either first, second or third prize winning ticketa.
Another 3,564 special prizes are awaiting to be collected.
The spokesman drew the attention of the public to the law that the
government has set down a waiting period of two years for a winner to produce
the correct lottery ticket and claim his prize.
Any prize money unclaimed two years after the publication of winning
numbers in the Government Gazette will be credited to the Lotteries Fund for
social welfare purposes.
"In his own interests any one who has not yet checked lottery tickets
which fall within the last two years should do so now," the spokesman urged.
A full list of winning lottery numbers is available at the office
of the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club at the Star Ferry concourse on Hong Kong
Island.
Since 1962 a total of $4.3 million in unclaimed prize money has been
forfeited to the Lotteries Fund.
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