PATRIOTIC RAFFLES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 2

PATRIOTIC RAFFLES

CONDITIONS EXPLAINED PRIZES MUST BE GIFTS LIMITS TO EXPENSES (By Telegrapb.—special to Times) AUCKLAND, Tuesday The conditions under which permits are granted for raffles for patriotic purposes were explained today by the inspector for the district of the Auckland Provincial Patriotic Council, Mr Neil McArthur. He said that under the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations no person could be paid any remuneration whatsoever for selling tickets, o“ organising or assisting in the conduct of a raffle. Mr McArthur pointed out that the secretary of a provincial patriotic council to whom a license was granted might, at his discretion, delegate to any secretary actually within his provincial patriotic district a nymber of authorities to conduct raffles within his zone, such authorities to be valid for issue only in the period defined, and the sale of tickets to be confined to that zone. The zone secretary would then be responsible for the actual authorisation of such raffle, but before the first day of each calendar month the zone secretary was required to forward to the provincial patriotic secretary of a zone patriotic committee issued during the previous month, showing the date of issue of each authority, together with the closing and drawing dates and the description and value of prizes. Provincial secretaries were required to forward to the Undersecretary of the Department of Internal Affairs a copy of the returns, or an abstract, giving a complete record for the provincial district. Must Be Gifts The regulations, he said, provided that property authorised to be raffled had to consist of absolute gifts. No part of the funds could be expended on the purchase of prizes, and no authorisation would be made of intoxicating liquor. The license did not authorise the sale of tickets in any place prohibited by or under the by-laws of a local authority, and no boy under the age of 14, or girl under the age of 16. was allowed to sell or offer for sale tickets in any street, hotel, shop, office, factory, boarding house, place of entertainment, or in any public place, the condition not applying to any boy of girl residing in an hotel or boarding house in respect to sales therein respectively. All drawings had to be under police supervision, and persons or institutions, to whom authority had been granted, were required to take reasonable steps to deliver each prize to the winner.

Mr McArthur said that the regulations were very clear on the question of expenses, which were limited to postage, stationery, audit fee and the cost of advertising. All books and accounts had to be open to the inspection of the police and other persons with proper authority.