RAFFLES DENOUNCES TO COMMUNITY AS NUISANCE
Press Association WANGANUI, To-day. “The time has arrived for a halt in raffles, which are becoming an intolerable nuisance in the community,” declared the Wanganui magistrate, Mr. J. G. Barton, yesterday. He fined George Ormsby, secretary of the Castlecliff Beach Improvement Society, £lO, for a breach of the terms of the permission to conduct an art union. One condition was that defendant must await applications for tickets, and not send books out indiscriminately, and it was this condition that was broken. “A distinct flouting of the Act that makes for bad citizenship,” said his Worship.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 1
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101RAFFLES DENOUNCES TO COMMUNITY AS NUISANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 1
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