ILLEGAL LOTTERY TICKET.
A FINE IMPOSED. (By Telegraph. — Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. In the Police Court today, Morgan Christopher O'Flaherty, charged with having purchased a ticket in an alleged lottery promoted in Tasmania admitted the offence. The magistrate held that there was no distinction (between purchasing a sweep ticket and a jJatkapu ticket, and imposed a fine of £1 and costs. O'Flaherty was aleo charged that on March 2 he made four counterfeit coins, with intent to make them resemble current silver coins. Two silvered pennies and two silvered halfpennies were found in his pockets, but accused denied having passed any of the coins. He said he was employed 'by a man who was agent for a material for silvering copper articles, and used the coins to demonstrate the efficacy of the material. The case was dismissed. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1922, Page 8
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