LOTTERY TICKETS
MIDDLE-AGED MAX FIXED
Appearing in the Police Court today on a charge of assisting in the conduct of a lotterv on November 27. James Douglas Ardley Scott (Mr. C. A. Snedden) pleaded guiltv.
It was stated by DetectiveSergeant Trethewey that when interviewed by Detective Mahood the defendant said an acquaintance had given him 50 tickets to sell. Each ticket was numbered and the holder of the ticket which contained the last three figures of the totalisator returns for a certain race meeting was entitled to a first prize of £100 Other prizes totalling £123 were offered.
Mr. Snedden said Scott, a middleaged married man. had nothing to do with the lottery excepting that he sold a few tickets, but he had to answer for what somebody else did. This was his first and last experience of disposing of tickets in the lottery. Scott was fined £5.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 13, 16 January 1942, Page 6
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