SWEEPS BARRED
" ACTION OF THE HOME OFFICE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, March 19. In continuation of the recent action regarding sweepstakes, the Home Office is prosecuting two British officers for selling tickets in a socalled £25,000 Grand National sweepstake, organised by the British Services Club in Boulogne in aid of the British and French war charities. The prosecution admitted that this* sweepstake was bona fide. The defendants said they had seen the Home Secretary,, who suggested that if the sweeps stakes were held it should be abroad. The Home Secretary.-apparently intends to suppress all sweepstakes. He has already prohibited a Stock Exchange sweep on behalf of. St. Dunstan's.
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Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 5
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111SWEEPS BARRED Wairarapa Age, 23 March 1920, Page 5
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