TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 87, 8 April 1903, Page 3

TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Wellington, April 6. Judgmsr.t was given by the Supreme Court to-diy in the nppMl c so affecting the agency for Tat, e;sail's sweep* in t his colony. Td-.tereaii's .agents ia Wellington, who received for transmission to the swepps at Hobart, weri fin-d heavily on a ch.rae of assisting in maintaining and conducting a lo'tery. ' his decision was appealed against on •he grounds (1) that tho lottery was conducted in Tasmania and did no* come under the New Zealand Act (2) that the forwarding of money for tickets for the lottery was not. ass sting in the management or conduct of tie lottery. The Court to-day upheld the appeal and quashed the conviction. The Court, wg unan mmsly of opinion that the Gamirg a-<d Lotteries Act only mjik-s it. a;i oft'-nc a to conduct j. lott'iy in New Zealand, and that cmvaßsiog in New Z'aland su'o scrip',tons 'o a forpjgn lo*.cesy or open ing an i ffice in New Ze;lf>nd for'he i-c-ipt", of subscriptions snd r.pplfca!io:is for tickets in a foreign lottery is po 1 ; nssis'irg in mmuitig cr conduc*iog a lo'tery in Nbw Zetland wi'.bin the m-anirg of the Act. The Court was of opinion that what appellants did in the office ocrup : ed by them io Wellington fell short of keeping a gaming bouso wit hin tha meaning of the Act.