TIME FOR A HALT.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 29 March 1927, Page 5

TIME FOR A HALT.

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' WANGANUI, Last Night. A £10 fine was inflicted upon George Ormsby, secretary of the Castlecliff Beach Improvement Society, at the Magistrate's Conrt today for a breach of the regulations under which a permit for an art union was issued. Among ten conditions defendant xvas not to deliver the books of tickets indiscriminately but was to await applilcations. Last month, however, defendant sent out tickets with a eovering letter and this fell into the hands of the police. During the police evi-. dence it transpired that the butts of one hook were found on the river bank. The seller f this apparently decamped with the money. Defendant raised a novel point that if a person purchased a ticket in anther art union it was sufficient acknowledgment that he was willing to act as an agent. The circulars enclosed were, he said, only personal letters to agents. The Magistrate, Mr J. S. Barton, held that the sentence: "I enclose a book of tickets," clearly indilcated a breach of the perhiit conditions. The time had arrived, he said, for a halt on raffles, which were becoming an intolerable nuisance in the comunity. In the case under review there was a distinct flouting of the Act, which made for bad citizenship.