The winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, was out doing some errands on Saturday afternoon when he decided to head to Greerton Lotto to buy a Lotto ticket. The $5.5 million winning ticket was sold at Greerton Lotto in Tauranga for the Lotto draw on Saturday 2 December. GREERTON LOTTO STOREGreerton Lotto in Tauranga is the "luckiest" Lotto store in the Bay of Plenty and sixth equal "luckiest" in New Zealand. This is the third Powerball winning ticket sold at Greerton Lotto. Two players won $4 million each with tickets bought at Greerton Lotto in February 2015 and September 2015.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 07, 2017 21:33 UTC