"BEER SWEEPS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 78, 3 April 1939, Page 11

"BEER SWEEPS."

16TH WAS UNLUCKY.

ONEHUNGA MAN FINED.

" FOIBI.ES OF BAB CROWDS,"

Running "beer sweeps" in an endeavour to add to the family Income cost fteorge Lloyd £4 when he appeared before Mr. J. H. Levien, S.M., at the Onehunga Police Court to-day and pleaded guilty through Mr. Terry to a charge of conducting a lottery by raffling beer. Sergeant S. A. Brown described visitii.jj an Onehunga hotel on March 11 at 4.30 p.m. and interviewing accused as a consequence of what he saw. Lloyd had then admitted that he ran the sweeps. "Sixpence In." "There were 20 persons in each sweep." said the sergeant, "aiid each paid eixpenee a time. Out of the 10/ collected Lloyd kept a shilling and passed the money over to the barman for 12 small bottles of ale, eight of which went to the winner and four to the runner-up." Lloyd had run 15 sweeps, and was running the sixteenth when accosted. "It seems hard that this man should be penalised for the eporting foibles of bar crowds," said Mr. Terry, who admitted that the practice, nevertheless, was indefensible. His client, who was a man with a wife and three children, was trying to get together some money to pay a heavy hospital bill for a sick daughter. He was a labourer earning £o a week. The magistrate, in fining accused £4, said there was no need for Lloyd, who was on a good wage, to raffle beer.