PRIZES FOR PICTURE THEATRE PATRONS
LOTTERY CHARGES FAIL Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 17. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., to-day gave judgment in the case whore the manager of tho Empress Theatre, Lester Sinclair, was charged on two'informations with awarding prizes to occupants of certain numbered seats by chance. The magistrate said that his docision would depend on whether the distribution of the prizes was made upon an honest judgment, upon some question, of merit or desert, or whether it had been given merely by accident, or, as had been said in one case, “was it the mind or the dice that had decided the destination of the prize.” Prom tho evidence he w’as not prepared to say that Sinclair, in choosing recipients for gifts or prizes, had not. acted upon a really honest and bonafide judgment. Both charges were dismissed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7019, 19 September 1929, Page 2
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