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$15m jackpot goes to ticket from Hastings

By Vaimoana Tapaleao
Hawkes Bay Today·
2 Jan, 2013 07:56 PM2 mins to read

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The new year looks a whole lot better for one lucky person, who picked up $15 million in the Big Wednesday draw last night.

The winning ticket was sold at the Caltex Station on Karamu Rd in Hastings, which also sold the second division-winning ticket - presumably to the same person.

Lotto spokeswoman Victoria Barton-Chapple said it had been an exciting run, as the jackpot had been rolling over since September 12, when a Tauranga man in his twenties won $27 million.

Ms Barton-Chapple said interest had become increasingly high as the jackpot grew.

"It's been running for a long time and we've just been waiting and waiting for it to go and tonight it's finally happened," she said.

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"Obviously we don't know at this stage whether the winner is a local or someone passing through - it could be someone on holiday."

The jackpot is one of the biggest to be won by a single Big Wednesday winner in recent years.

The biggest ever prize, $36 million, was won by a family syndicate in Masterton in 2009.

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Last September in Tauranga, a young man who described himself as a "typical Kiwi bloke" won the big prize after he went to get a haircut and found that the barber was closed.

He decided to use the money on a Big Wednesday ticket.

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