LOTTERY ACT

Grey River Argus, 8 June 1933, Page 7

LOTTERY ACT

—- OR :AhxsEß fined (P‘r Press Association) WELLINGTON, .June 7. As a seqii' l to the Eastbourne Easter carnival, the organiser, Donald Douglas McDonald \va> chargel at Lower Hutt to-day with establishing a lottery, by which a radio set was disposed of by a mode of chance. and with establishing a lottery by which a motor cat was similarly disposed of. He pleaded guilty to both charges entered. Tho police statement mentioned that the fuir was for the relief of distress and that the defendant offered his services as an organiser, and suggest ed the lotteries, and was to get ten per cent of the profits for organising th., work. Defendant was warned by the policy, that th,, lotteri's were illegal, but ho carried on and complete.l them. It was a case for a substantial penally, be cause defendant had carried on after being warned, and did it, not only fi r the distress fund, but for gain for himself. ('ounsel for defendant urged that th v oft’vnc. - was committed before Mi Page. S.M ’> decision that the disposal of prizes bv a shooting competition was illegal, find also urged that it was impossible to stop lotteries .already under way when the police in t ervened. Mr McNeil. S M. said that though he did not waul It Io go forth that ho was countenancing breaches of the Act he was of the opinion that consider ing the obj'cts for which th,- fund was reaised these lotteries w re on a dilTeiet I footing from th ( . one with which M r I’agi < was concerned. IL 1 convicted the defendant on both charges, lined him £5 on the first, and ordered him to pay costs on the seco it I.