SCHEME FOUND TO BE A LOTTERY
APPEAL DISMISSED (PRESS ASSOCIATION TBLKfIRAIf.) AUCKLAND, December 8. In a judgment delivered to-day, Mr Justice Smith dismissed the appeal of George Kennedy Elliot McLean against the magistrate's decision that the scheme known as the multiplication bureau was a lottery. He ordered £lO 10s costs to be paid by the apjudge said it was plain that all a member had to do was to pay his subscription, enrol four other members. and then wait for his cash commissions on indirect enrolments. liis Honour could not see how any knowledge, experience, art, or skill on the part of a member could be regarded as influencing the drawing by that member of the commissions. The main source of cash commissions was indirect enrolments, which depended purdy on chance so far as the receiving member was concerned. In law that was a finding that the distribution of cash commissions depended on chance, and that Ihe scheme was a lottery.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 21034, 9 December 1933, Page 7
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