CAUGHT SELLING
IRISH FREE STATE TICKET PROSECUTION VENDOR AND INVESTORS CONVICTED [Per United Press Association.] HAMILTON, March 28. Robert Charles Howell, a farm hand, was charged in the Morrinsville Court under the gaming act with selling Irish Free State sweepstake tickets. The constable, in evidence, said he saw the defendant approaching people in the street and taking money from them. When accosted defendant had a book of tickets, which he was selling at 12s each'. , Howell was quite frank about the matter, telling him that twelve months ago he -had written his name at the back of a boob as a person desiring to become a seller. He had sold six tickets to Morrinsville residents. These persons were also charged under the Gaming Act with buying tickets in a lottery. In ordering Howell to pay costs, and cpuvicting and discharging the others, the magistrate (Mr S. L. Patterson) remarked that it was the first case of its kind in New Zealand, and as it was not generally known that it was an offence under the Gaming Act to buy or sell Irish Free State tickets, he had treated the defendants leniently.
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Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 14
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191CAUGHT SELLING Evening Star, Issue 21992, 30 March 1935, Page 14
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