SWEEP PROMOTERS FINED.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9147, 16 May 1908, Page 2

SWEEP PROMOTERS FINED.

Per Press Association. Wellington,'May 15, Before Mr Riddell, S.M., to-day, Charles Frederick-Priest, tobacconist and hairdresser, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling unlawfully, at Petone, a ticket by which permission was given to the purchaser thereof to have an interest in a scheme-by which prizes were 'gained by a mode of chance. The Chief Detective stated that defendant had sold to a constable in plain clothes two tickets in a sweep on the Wanganui Steeplechase. Twenty-five thousand subscribers at 3s each were supposed to enter for the sweep, the first prize to be £750, the second £BOO, the third £IOO, and others to divide £2OO. Defendant charged 3s 8d for each ticket, reserving 3d for himself as commission. Counsel stated that accused ’did not know he was breaking the law. Only fifteen tickets had been sold in Petone, and the money bad since been returned to the purchasers. Defendant was fined £3 and costs. Percy Simpson, his assistant, was fined £l. John Turner, on a similar charge, was fined £3.