ADDRESSES BANNED
PRIVATE LOTTERY PROMOTERS
GAZETTE NOTICE ISSUED
The hope of monetary success has evidently inspired a number of people in Ireland and elseAvhere to run lotteries and sAveepstakes similar to the Irish Free Sweepstake. Recent “Gazetto” notices prohibit the issue of money-orders and the transmission of postal correspondence in NeAV Zealand for various addresses. The latest issue of the “Gazette” has tAvo such prohibitions, and the previous issue had tAvo.
The notices of prohibition state:— “The Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, liavipg reasonable orounds for supposing that persons are engage)! in promoting a lottery or scheme of chance, it is hereby ordered, under .section 32 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1928, that no money-order in favour of the said persons shall he issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said persons (either by bis own or any fictitious or assumed name), or addressed to the address Avitliout a name, shall be either registered or forwarded by the Post Office of New Zealand.” The hitert notice appends two names, one of which is that of a woman in Ireland and the other of a man in the North Island.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1932, Page 5
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194ADDRESSES BANNED Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1932, Page 5
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