Lotto draw number 1590 didn't deliver the big Powerball jackpot of about $30 million, but there was some consolation for a Wairoa agency customer with a half-share of the millon-dollar Lotto first division prize on Saturday night.
The $500,000 goes to a ticket sold at the Johansen's Hammer and Hardware agency on Wairoa's Marine Parade, one of four Lotto agencies in the town. It was part of a pool shared with a ticket bought in Patea, and had been claimed, a Lotto representative said late yesterday.
It was a near-repeat of a Hawke's Bay-Taranaki double at Easter when a ticket bought at Wairoa's Mobil service station agency split a million-dollar Lotto first division prize with a ticket sold in Waitara.
On Saturday, the winning numbers were 15, 19, 22, 23, 30, and 36. The bonus number was 31 and the Powerball number was 9.
Other big winners were a Dunedin Strike Four player who won $515,850, but while there were no claims to the big Powerball pot, two second second division winners claimed $31,630 each.