"WORKS OF ART."
A MAGISTERIAL RULING. [BX TELEGIIAril — PRESS ASSOCIATION.! DUNEDIN, This Day. In the Police Court this morning, Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., gave judgment in the case in which the secretary of the Railway Pioneers' Carnival was charged with disposing of personal property by means of a lottery. The point was whether a "suite of furniture, embellished by carving, became a work of art, and was legally capable of being raffled. The case was taken as a test. The Magistrate could not see how it could be contended that the entire suite was in itself a work of art. Ordinary trade articles had been embellished by the addition of artistic work of a cohiparatively minor nature, which was an accident, not an essential to the article. As the case was a test, and the conduct of defendant had been bona fide and open, a line of Is, without costs, would be inflicted.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 8
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152"WORKS OF ART." Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 8, 9 July 1909, Page 8
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