Jazz raffle cancelled

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32998, 18 August 1972, Page 8

Jazz raffle cancelled

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 17. A raffle offering a free trip to the 1973 Newport Jazz Festival in the United States as first prize has been cancelled by the promoter more than a month after tickets were first sold to the public. The licence for the raffle was signed by the Auckland Musicians’ Union and tickets sold for 50c each throughout New Zealand.

Mr N. McGough, of the Musicians’ Union, said all money taken by ticketsellers would be refunded. Ticket-holders should return their tickets to the place of purchase. He said that the raffle, the proceeds from which were to go to the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, had been cancelled after a misunderstanding on the part of the organisers over paying ticket-sellers. Women sellers had been paid, but it was later discovered that under the terms of the licence such payment was not allowed. "We wrote to the Internal Affairs Department cancelling the licence on Friday,” he said. "We have already sent letters to the ticket-sellers stopping sales and telling them to return money.”