LIMERICKS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 233, 25 June 1908, Page 7

LIMERICKS.

——- - EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMITTEE ON LOTTERIES. . I • ' »1 IBLEQRAPH —rn'4Sß ASSOCIATION—COPtRJOnt :.. London, Juno 23. I' was stated/before a parliamentary committeo on>lotteriks that nearly eleven million sixpenny-pbstaliorders were-paid for during the -second. half of' 1907, - mainly for " Limerick " competitions promoted by. newspapers, • During the last six months tho number was under half a million. lotteries committee. The Lotteries and Advertisements Committee iras set up m March last, on'the motion'of the ihen .Chief Government Whip, Mr. Goo. Whiteley, now elevated to the House of Lords. The' Committee- is instructed 1 to' enquire into the law—. _ v *' :V----(1) As to lotteries, including the sale of lot"try bonds,- competitions 'for prizes which inlolve an , element of chance;' and advertisenents relating thereto; ) (?) A? 4 °. indecent literature and ; pictures rnd advertisements relating to things indecent. '/ immoral; and- to report what amendments, ' '"Ji in the law.are necessary or desirable. .The committee consists of Earl Beauchamp, -Jie Jiarl of Dononghmore, Viscount Llandnff. .•ho Earl of Dalhousie, and Lord Herscholl; and the following members of the House of Commons: Messrs; G.Beck&tt, H. J. Craig, Hastings Duncan,. W. O'Malley, and H. J. Wilson. The £o;irt of Appeal , the other day decided that certain "Limerick" competitions promoted by Manchester papers wero -lotteries,