Mountain Scene
February 11, 2021
By PHILIP CHANDLER
To call Queenstown’s veteran harbourmaster Marty Black a jammy individual is an understatement.
Almost four years afterwinning a cool half millondollars in a Lotto draw, two weeks ago he won $333,000 after three players shared the top first division prize of $1 million.
Black, 74, says he bought the ticket from Queenstown’s Pak’nSave, then, while on his way to his North Canterbury holiday home, his partner popped into Geraldine’s FreshChoice, where she found the ticket had won four bonus lines.
‘‘Just by sheer luck, it ended up as a winner.’’
But he didn’t find out till almost a week later, when checking his ticket at a Cheviot Lotto outlet.