GAMING ACT BREACH
THEATRE COMPANY FINED
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 7. The Metropolitan Theatre Company, which controls Auckland’s Embassy Theatre, and the theatre’s manager, Gordon Jardine, have been convicted of a breach of the Gaming Act. The charge was laid last year after random allotments of free tickets were announced in the newspapers. In a reserved judgment given today, Mr R. M. Grant, S.M., fined the company £lO for establishing on September 20, 1954, a scheme whereby prizes were gained by chance. Jardine was fined £5 for aiding and abetting the offence.
The Magistrate said that chance had determined the selection of the tickets’ The device had been designed to encourage reading of tne picture theatre advertisements, with the hope that the reader might see his >r her own name as the guest of the evening. A close scrutiny of the evidence revealed no trace of skill or dexterity in the scheme.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27705, 8 July 1955, Page 5
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