SWEEPSTAKE CONDUCTED
TO ASSIST UNEMPLOYED. SPONSOk , FINED. [Special to "Northern Advocate.”l "AUCKLAND, This Day. Charged on summons with establishing a scheme by means of which prizes of money were gained by amode of chance, Evan Girvan, for whom Mr J. J. Sullivan appealed, pleaded guilty in the Police Court yesterday. . „ , Senior-Detective Hall said defendant had been conducting a sweepstake on the results of football matches, the entrance fee being 1/. The first prize was £5, and there were other cash prizes. Mr Sullivan said Girvan was a member of a large industrial union, which' included many unemployed men. The scheme was designed to assist the unemployed, and the prize-winners happened to be unemployed men. Girvan was a respectable working man with a wife and three children. He had no intentio'n to set up a lottery, and before the police had interfered, the scheme was abandoned. The magistrate, in fining Girvan £4 and costs on one charge and ordering him to pay costs on the other, said that the reason Girvan gave was that outsiders ran sweeps and the union members were dissatisfied with the low prizes given.
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Northern Advocate, 15 June 1935, Page 9
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187SWEEPSTAKE CONDUCTED Northern Advocate, 15 June 1935, Page 9
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