ART UNION SCANDAL
SECRETARY STEALS TICKETS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, July 22. George Wheeler, secretary of the Help for Consumptives Art Union, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of stealing 14,G0D tickets, the property of the committee. The police gave evidence that the accused admitted that he put the butts of these tickets in the barrel, and they were drawn, securing prizes valued at several hundred pounds. The police found that of 21,000 tickets which had been sold to the public large numbers of tbo butts bad been burned. These tickets therefore had no chance in the draw.
The Attorney-General is considering the question of redrawing the art union.
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Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 5
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112ART UNION SCANDAL Evening Star, Issue 19000, 23 July 1925, Page 5
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