• A man who spent most of his childhood sowing rice for just five cents a day has won the ultimate raffle prize – a massive section of Waikato land.

Filipino-born June Veniegas and his wife Evelyn were recently named as the lucky punters to win back the price of their 7000sqm section of land in the small northern Waikato town Te Kauwhata.

That equated to $320,000.

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The Waikato developers decided to refund the purchase price of a section from their Te Kauwhata subdivision to one lucky buyer.