RUNNING A LOTTERY
BUSINESS FIRM FINED Stewart Hardware, Ltd., was fined £2O and costs by Mr. E. Page, S.AI., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of having promised to dispose of property by lottery or chance. ■ The defendants, who pleaded guilty, were represented by Air. AA 7 . H. Cunningham. . ■ The prosecution suited trom an advertisement which promised that a refund of fifty per cent, of the purchaseprice of goods procured nn a certain date during November would be made to holders of . receipt dockets . issued on a dav to be known.as “refund day.” The day was decided by a piece of paper drawn from a hat. The slip after being drawn at random from the hat was placed in an envelope and sent to the National Bank of New Zealand with instructions that it was not to be opened until December, and then in the presence of a Justice of the Peace.and the bank manager. In convicting the firm, the Magistrate said that it seemed clear the operations had come within section -'l9 of the Gaming Act. The ease was almost identical with the prosecution against Collinsbn and Cunninghame, Palmerston North.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 57, 30 November 1929, Page 13
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193RUNNING A LOTTERY Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 57, 30 November 1929, Page 13
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