“TRIVIAL OFFENCE”
LOTTERY TO AID GREY LYNN SCHOOL CHAIRMAN PROSECUTED TVriLLIAM GEORGE SHEARER, ■ chairman of the Grey Lynn School Committee, pleaded guilty at the Police Court to-day to a charge of establishing a lottery. Chief-Detective Cummings said that the school, committee, in order to carry out work recommended by the Education Board, organised a sale of work. At the sale of work a cushion was raffled and a guessing competition held. When inquiries were made Shearer agreed to accept all responsibility for the offence. Mr. J. F. W. Dickson, who appeared for defendant, said that the informa tion on which the prosecution was founded had been given to the police by a person who had attended the parents’ meeting called to arrange for the sale of work. The magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, in discharging defendant without penalty, said the offence was a trivial one
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 222, 8 December 1927, Page 1
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