PAK-A-PU SWEEP
POLICE CONSTABLE’S LUCK NEWCASTLE, July 1. Constable Crommelin, of West Maitland, won £2O 18/- for 6d. while conducting a pak-a-pu investigation in Newcastle West this week. Tickets which he bought on Friday and Saturday last were unsuccessful, but a purchase on Monday turned luck his way. < Sergeant Hungerford, giving evidence at Newcastle Police Court this morning, said that Crommelin had been paid his winnings, but had not been allowed by the promoters to buy another ticket on the ground that he was too lucky. Two pak-a-pu sweeps were being drawn daily in the district; one at 4 p.m. and the other at 10 p.m. Harry Gunn, 49, a grocer, was fined £5. with costs, on a charge of having allowed a room to be used for the selling of tickets for the disposal of money by chance. Constable Crommelin’s winnings will be paid to consolidated revenue.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1932, Page 11
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