ILLEGAL LOTTERY
[Pek United Pkess Association.] WELLINGTON, May 17. A fine of £lO was imposed by My J. H. Luxford, S.M., on Harry Holden, a relief worker, for disposing of tickets in a lottery. The legislation, the magistrate said, had quite wisely prescribed very heavy penalties for people who took part in unauthorised lotteries, for tire simple reason that they enabled frauds to be worked on the public. The lottery in question was a local one, at first known as the C.T.A., then as the C.A.T., and later still as the W.S.S., into which the police had been making an investigation. In a statement to the police the accused described how ho got the tickets and prize lists from one described as “ Blucy,” and how the collector gathered the money for the tickets sold,
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Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 12
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134ILLEGAL LOTTERY Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 12
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