NEWSPAPER COMPETITIONS
BREACH OF GAMING ACT.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, March 9.
In the Police Court to-day, the Sun Newspapers Coy., Ltd., w r as fined £5 on each of three charges brought under the Gaming Act, as the result of racing competitions conducted last year. . . Tire charges were of establishing a lottery, receiving money in consideration to pay money on the contingency of a horse race; and lastly, with receiving money as a consideration for a promise to pay £lOOO on the result of the New Zealand Cup and New Zealand Trotting Cup. In a reserved judgment, Mr McKean, S.M., said he was not prepared to deny that possession of some knowledge of the form of horses might not be an advantage to competitors. However, the accurate placing of horses, at a time when it was not known whether some of the horses would be scratched, was a mattei - in which the element of chance predominated. It had been decided that a game in which there was a mixture of skill and chance could be unlawful. The defendants, therefore, he said, would be convicted, and fined £5 on each of the three charges.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1928, Page 12
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