TICKET WITH EVERY SIXTH PACKET
TEA-SELLING DEVICE CHALLENGED [Per United Press Association.] DANNEVIRKE, June 12.. To promote the sale of a certain brand of tea a grocer advertised that he .would give a “ Lucky Cat ” Art Union ticket in every twelfth packet <>of tea purchased. Subsequently the offer was increased to one ticket in every sixth pound of tea. The tea was stacked in such order that every sixth pound contained a ticket; and any person buying 121 b or 61b was sure of a ticket. ■ ■ , The defendant was charged in court to-day with disposing of tickets by chance. The facts were admitted. The defendant’s counsel submitted that the scheme was not a lottery, because customers could in at least two ways make sure of a prize. They could enter the shop and keep on buying pounds of tea till they received a ticket, or they could buy ] 21b or 61b of tea and thus make sure' of a ticket. He quoted cases to show that if skill or effort could contribute to success then there was no lottery. Decision was reserved by Mr J. Miller, S.M.
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Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 3
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187TICKET WITH EVERY SIXTH PACKET Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 3
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