ART UNIONS AND RAFFLES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1931, 13 December 1913, Page 5

ART UNIONS AND RAFFLES.

$ , r A WORD OF WARNING. Tho following section of tho Gaming Act, 1908, is published for general information in this week's "Gazette": — "42. (1) If any person beihg the owner of any painting, drawing, sculpture, or other work of art, or literature, or. mineral specimens, or mechanical models, applies to the Minister of Internal Affairs for permission to disposo of'the samo by rafflo or chance, tho said Minister may, if ho thinks fit, grant a license for that purpose, subject to such conditions and restrictions as ho thinks right to impose. . "(2) If such conditions and restrictions are complied' with, the provisions of this Act, or any other law for tho time being in force' 1 relating to gaming and lotteries, shall not apply to such owner or to any other persons who maybe bona fide concerned! in such transacticn.*''

The words, "or other work of art," in tho above extract arc, it is stated, held to mean articles of the nature of paintings, drawings, or sculptures. No articles except those mentioned in any license granted by the Minister of Internal Affairs shall be disposed of by rafflo or.chance, either as gifts to prizewinners or on any other pretext. A copy of each 1 icon so granted by tho Minister will be sent to the police, in order that proceedings may ,be taken ■in tho event of any infringement of tho Act.