\u201cSometimes it\u2019s someone who is completely surprised and overwhelmed because they weren\u2019t expecting it because they were just checking their tickets from last week.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Art Deco weekend was a really busy time for the store.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expected the focus to be in town, but we were kept occupied all day and we definitely noticed a lot of visitors in the Lotto queue dressed up in Art Deco [costumes].\u201d<\/p>\n
Spence was now wondering if the winner was a visitor to the region who had gone home with some extra cash in addition to their holiday photos.<\/p>\n
However, he said, regardless of where the winner resides, the team at the pharmacy felt privileged to sell another winning Lotto ticket.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe feel very fortunate that luck has shone on Onekawa and our community. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve actually given back a huge amount of cash over the years to people in our community and we\u2019re very grateful that Lady Luck decides to smile on us.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate our winner, wherever they are, whoever they are, and I hope they enjoy their winnings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Riddell is a multimedia journalist with Hawke\u2019s Bay Today and has worked in radio and media in the UK, Germany, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSometimes it\u2019s someone who is completely surprised and overwhelmed because they weren\u2019t expecting it because they were just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7495,534,1228,146150,25262,5131,163881,10506,16507,130,5969,3607,111,43,139,69,3194,81043,1128,128040,131,10507,4767,18457],"class_list":{"0":"post-297442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-1m","9":"tag-amid","10":"tag-art","11":"tag-deco","12":"tag-dress","13":"tag-festival","14":"tag-flapper","15":"tag-lotto","16":"tag-lucky","17":"tag-more","18":"tag-much","19":"tag-napier","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-pharmacy","25":"tag-punter","26":"tag-sells","27":"tag-straw","28":"tag-than","29":"tag-ticket","30":"tag-weekend","31":"tag-winning"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}