LOTTERY CHARGE
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WELLINGTON, This Day. Truth (New Zealand) Ltd. and National Magazines were charged before Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., with publishing an advertisement for a lottery, and Timothy Harold Langley, a boot manufactnrer, with establishing a lottery, a word-wrangling competition. The charge against Truth was adjoumed. The other two defendants plead guilty. The police said that Langley had promoted a number of similar competitions, but apparently only at considerable loss. Counsel said that Langley fell into a breach of the law through ignorance on a tecnical point. This commercial venture in word problems was his last. He had discontinued before proceedings were taken, having already, counsel was informed, lost £50 over them. In regard to the Radio Record, the police said that when interviewed the proprietors said that it was their practice to act in conjunction with Truth, who employed counsel to investigate the legality of the advertisement and advise them on the position. Truth published the advertisement and the Record assumed therefore that there was no question of legality. Langley was fined £2 and costs and National Magazines were ordered to pay costs.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 5
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192LOTTERY CHARGE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 5
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