GAMING ACT
A MERCHANT’S DILEMMA
(By Press Association)
WELLINGTON, September 25. To stimulate business, Ernest Nees, a hardware merchant, offered free prizes of tools and cutlery to the twen-ty-fifth, fiftieth, seventy-fifth, and hundredth customer to: make a purchase in July, and so brought himself within the- provisions of the Gaming Act. When the case was heard to-day he said he had no idea he was committing a breach.
The police said he was a citizen of high standing and there was no reason to believe things were not as lie said. A light penalty was imposed of £1 and costs.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 6
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100GAMING ACT Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 6
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