“SURPRISE” PACKETS.
BUSINESS MAN FINED. MAGISTRATE’S NON-LEGAL REASONING. HAMILTON, July 7. Harold David Caro, proprietor of the Great Bargain Store, recently conducted a Surprise Packet Day, on which he sold envelopes at one shilling each, containing a ticket for an article in the store. A detective who purchased two envelopes, drew an overcoat valued at £3 and a vase Another detective drew a mirror and a pair of boot trees. To-day, Caro was charged that, by means of a certain device he did dispose of a gentleman’s overcoat, such coat being allotted by chance. For the defence, Caro merely followed the lead set bv certain Auckland firms who held Surprise Packet ket days. Magistrate Wilson said he found it
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Grey River Argus, 8 July 1926, Page 5
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