ART UNION TICKETS IN TEA
DANNEVIRKE PROSECUTION. (By Tclcgrnph.—Press Association.) ' DANNEVIRKE, Tuesday. To promote the sale of a certain brand of tea, Hamlet Eagle, a grocer, advertised that he would give an art union ticket in every twelfth packet of tea purchased. Subsequently, the offer was increatfed to one ticket, for every sixth pound of tea. The tea was stacked in such order that every sixth pound contained a ticket, and any person buying 121b or 01b was sure of a ticket. Defendant was charged in tlio Court with disposing of tickets by chance. The facte were admitted. Counsel for the defence submitted that defendant's scheme was not a lottery because customers could in at least two ways make sure of a prize. They could enter the shop aild keep on buying pounds of tea until they received a ticket, or they could buy 121b or 01b of tea and thus make sure of a ticket. Counsel quoted cases to show that if skill or effort could contribute to success, then there was no lottery. The magistrate reserved his decision.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 138, 13 June 1934, Page 14
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