A NEW ZEALAND "TATT'S."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 110, 11 May 1908, Page 5

A NEW ZEALAND "TATT'S."

BIG SCHEME DISCOVERED

SUBSTANTIAL PRIZE-MONEY

[PRESS . ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, May 11. What is alleged to be a form of .New Zealand TattersallV consultation is stated to have been unearthed by the local detective staff, and it is expected that several persons will have to answer charges of having been concerned in the selling of tickets purporting to be for the kind of lottery mentioned. It is stated that the scheme to nave a big scope ; extending from one end of the Dominion to the other. , Detective Cassels, who has had the m&iWf! in hand for. some time, at last has succeeded ■in obtaining evidence upon \ which action is being taken. It is understood that an alleged sweep was 'got up on the Wangariui Steeplechase, to be run on May 23, and that the prizes offered were as follows*:'—First horse £750, second £300, third £100; other horses to divide £200, arid the balance in cash prizes, to be drawn pro rata, less 10 per cent. . . It is stated that the proposition involved the issuing of 25>000 tickets at 2s .each. . ' . ■