RUNNING A LOTTERY.
BUSINESS FIRM FINED. CASE AT WELLINGTON. Stewart Hardware, Ltd., was fined £2O and costs by Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington last week on a charge of having promised to dispose of property by lottery or chance. The defendants, who pleaded guilty, were represented by Mr W. M. Cunningham. \ The prosecution resulted from an advertisement which promised that a refund of 50 per cent, of the purchase price of goods procured on a certain date during November would be made to holders of receipt dockets issued on a day to be known as “refund day.” The day was decided by a piece of paper drawn from a hat. The slip after being drawn at random from the hat was placed in an envelope and sent to the National Bank of New Zealand with instructions that it was not to be opened until December, and then in the presence of a justice of the peace and the bank manager. In convicting the firm the magistrate said that it seemed clear the operations had come within section 39 of the Gaming Act. The case was almost identical with the prosecution against Collinson and Cunninghame, Palmerston North.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5509, 4 December 1929, Page 2
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201RUNNING A LOTTERY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5509, 4 December 1929, Page 2
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