WHAT ARE LOTTERIES?
Recent action of the police in Wanganui will at least direct public attention strongly to defects in the Gaming and Lotteries Act. The facts are undisputed and simple. A grocer advertised that everyone who bought a pound of tea would get a chance of a present, and accordingly a woman bought a pound of tea and was given an envelope in which she was lucky enough to find written the words “ A pair of ear-rings ’’—meaning thereby that the grocer undertook to give her the articles mentioned. He was prosecuted and fined. It is not too much to say that this test case ought to compel fresh legislation. It is the inherited right of the Britisher to indulge his harmless “ fads ” without annoyance; and among these is the delight in Christmas-trees, lucky bags at bazaars, and the old- s fashioned goose club. Our Legislature will have to make up its mind clearly as to what it wants to suppress. If it deliberately intends to suppress bazaar lotteries and half-crown sweeps between friends on a race course, treating these as punishable offences, the Legislature mistakes its functions. If it is in earnest about stopping racing sweeps and consultations, the public will not kick against a wholesome and necessary restriction.
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Patea Mail, 12 January 1882, Page 3
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