QUICK RAFFLES STOPPED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 228, 23 June 1941, Page 6

QUICK RAFFLES STOPPED

Patriotic Collections POLICE ACT IN AUCKLAND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 22. Stopped by the police during a street appeal in Auckland on Friday in the campaign for the fighting forces fund, quick raffles will be permitted no further. The prohibtlon, which includes the raffling of liquor and giving liquor with prizes, was enforced late on Friday afternoon. It was stated on Saturday that the holding of quick raffles from trucks in the city with drawings every few minutes is regarded as a nuisance and a breach of ‘the regulations. This form of raffle has been conducted undqr a “blanket” licence, a stipulation being that the prizes should be under £5 in value. The requirements of the Gaming Act, however, are said to have been abused, one of the factors being that the trucks at the street corners have each been handling several hundred pounds worth of goods in a day. isome business men claim that this type of raffle is creating a nuisance in the vicinity of their premises and that the mass raffling of goods is affecting the small trader in a way that cannot be condoned by patriotic motives. No complaint is being made concerning the organizing of patriotic art unions for prizes over £5 held under licence. An official of the Internal Affairs Department said on Saturday that their conduct was entirely satisfactory.