A LOTTERY.
FUNDS FOR UNEMPLOYED. UNION MEMBER FINED £4. Charged on summons with establishing a scheme by means of which prizes of money were gained by a mode of chance, Evan Girvan, for whom Mr. J. J. Sullivan appeared, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day. Senior-Detective Hall said defendant had been conducting a sweepstake on the results of football matches, the entrance fee being 1/. The first prize was £5, and there were other cash prizes.
Mr. Sullivan said Girvan was a member of a large industrial union, which included many unemployed men. The scheme was designed to assist the unemployed, and the prize-winnere happened to be unemployed men. Girvan was a respectable working man with a wife and three children. He had no intention to set iip a lottery, and before the police had interfered the scheme was abandoned. The magistrate, in fining Girvan £4 and costs on one charge and ordering him to pay costs on the other, said that the reason Girvan gave was that outeiders ran sweeps and the union members were dissatisfied with the low prizes given.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 8
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183A LOTTERY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 8
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