STOPPED BY THE POLICE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23362, 23 June 1941, Page 4

STOPPED BY THE POLICE

“ QUICK RAFFLES ” FROM TRUCKS

USE TO AID PATRIOTIC PURPOSES

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 22. Stopped by the police during a street appeal In Auckland on Friday la ft* Fighters’ Mothers’ Campaign for the Fighting Forces Fund, no further "quick raffles’’ will be permitted. The prohibition, which includes the ruling of liquor and the giving of liqUy with prizes, was enforced late on Fn* day afternoon. . It was stated on Saturday that wj holding of “quick raffles” from trikP in the city, with drawings every minutes, is Regarded as a nuisance aw a breach of the regulations. This lot® of raffle has been conducted under* “blanket” licence, a stipulation being that the prizes should be under £5 ® value. The requirements of the Gwh®r Act, however, are said to have b<® abused, one of the factors being «*■ trucks at street corners have each M® handling several hundred pounsl worth of goods in a day. ~ , Some businessmen claim that tlw type of raffle is creating a nuisaW* in the vicinity of their premises, that the. mass raffling of goods Is affect' ing the small trader in a way »>*. cannot be condoned by patriotic motives. No 'complaint is being made W* cerning the organising of patriotic P{ unions for prizes of more than £5, n®* under licence. An official of the.®* ternal Affairs Department said on 3* l ' urday that their conduct was enttfw satisfactory."