A SCHEME FRUSTRATED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 233, 2 October 1925, Page 5

A SCHEME FRUSTRATED.

LOTTERY ON AVONDALE CUP.! j POST BOXES WATCHED. ! . I I MOXEY AXD BUTTS FOUND. i (B„r Telegraph.-Press Association.! WELLINGTON"., this day. In the Magistrate's Lourt to-day Herbert James Met'rath and Llarem-e Ronaid Sutherland were charged with conducting a lottery, by which prize- were to be drawn by a mode of chance. According to the police, accused secured post office boxes, from which they sent books of tickets containing _.*> oneshilling tickets, allowing sellers 5' a book. The lottery was on the Avondale Cup. Had tiie scheme not been frustrated, they would have received £1200. and the prizes would have amounted to £200. Detectives watched tiie post office boxes, and in McGrath's box they found unregistered letters containing £21 in money, and some butts of tickets sold. Counsel for the accused said tiie offence was the outcome of a foolish suspicion on tho part of aceus-'d that a similar lottery, organised in Australia ' but operating in New Zealand, was j being conducted dishonestly. Accused I believed they might counteract this by I conducting their own lottery. They | thought they 'would be rendering tiie country a service by ktepin:: tho money ' in Xew Zealand. Decision was reserved.