RESERVED JUDGMENT
INFORMATION DISMISSED
(By Telegraph—Press Association).,
AUCKLAND, Sept. 17
Mr Huntt S.M. gave judgment in a case where the Manager of the Empress
a. centre, Lister Sinclair, was charged on two informations with awarding prizes to occupants of certain numbered seats by chance.
The Magistrate said 'the ■■• decision must depend on whether the distribution of prizes, as made upon an honest judgment upon some question of merit or desert or whether, it should have been given merely by accident, or as had been said in one case, “was it the mind or the dice that decided the destination of prizes.” From the evidence he was not prepared to say that Sinclair, in choosing recipients for gifts or prizes, had not acted upon a really honest and bona fide judgment.' Both charges were dismissed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1929, Page 5
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