Retired Tauranga woman wins $1 million

A Tauranga woman has won $1 million thanks to her investment with Bonus Bonds. File photo.

A Tauranga retiree has won $1 million in a Bonus Bonds draw this month.

The winner, who heard about the prize on her wedding anniversary, says her only big purchase will be taking her train-obsessed husband to Australia to ride heritage trains.

'We live in a retirement village so it's different than if we had our own place which we could do up. We have a good life here so there's no need to spend it at the moment,” she says.

After hearing she won, the winner asked her husband, 'How tall would a pile of money of that amount be? I'd never seen money like that before in my life!”

The winner thought it was her husband who had won, as he has won smaller Bonus Bonds prizes in the past.

'I passed the phone to my husband after hearing the news. I thought, ‘oh this can't be for me'. When my husband handed me back the phone my jaw-dropped – I had won a million dollars,” she says.

'When my mother died she left us kids a little bit of money. I invested that in to Bonus Bonds and if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have won the grand prize.”

The winner has held Bonus Bonds for 16 years and won a prize of $5000 previously.

'I thought, ‘alright that's my big win and never thought I'd receive a prize larger. Wasn't I wrong?!”

The winner says she plans to reinvest some of her winnings back into Bonus Bonds.

Instead of earning interest or receiving investment gains, a $1 million grand prize is paid to one winning bondholder each month along with one prize of $100,000, one prize of $50,000 plus multiple prizes of $5,000, $500, $100, $50 and $20.

To date the youngest bondholder to win $1 million was just three years old and the oldest was 92.

Bonus Bonds have to be owned for one calendar month before they are eligible for the monthly draw. Minimum purchase is $20. See bonusbonds.co.nz for more information.

ANZ Investment Services (New Zealand) Limited is the manager and issuer of the Bonus Bonds Scheme. A copy of the product disclosure statement is available at bonusbonds.co.nz or at any ANZ branch.

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