CARNIVAL LOTTERY
♦ A WARNING PROSECUTION (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. . The organiser of the Manufacturers' Association Carnival, held1 in aid of the Cancer Campaign Fund, was charged in the Magistrate's Court to-day with conducting a lottery. Inspector Cummings said that the police were in sympathy with the campaign, but could not allow breaches of the law. They did not press for a penalty, but wanted the public to know that such lotteries could not be carried on. The' Magistrate dismissed the case, subject to the payment of 10s costs, adding that if similar cases came before the Court a substantial penalty would be imposed.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 11
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105CARNIVAL LOTTERY Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 135, 5 December 1930, Page 11
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