A TICKET IN “TATTS”

Northern Advocate, 15 June 1935, Page 10

A TICKET IN “TATTS”

QUESTION OF SALE CASE ON APPEAL. LEGAL ARGUMENT HEARD. (Per Press Association. — Copyright.] DUNEDIN, This Day. Legal argument was heard by Mr Justice Kennedy in the Supreme Court today in the case in which Vivian S. Jacobs, tobacconist, appeals from a convictions for the sale of a Tattersal ticket. Mr J. S. Sinclair, for appellant, stated that the community throughout New Zealand was interested in obtaining a judicial interpretation of the Act. The magistrate had held that the section referring to receiving money for a ticket in a lottery did not apply to a lottery outside New Zealand and had convicted on another charge, that of sale. Counsel submitted that appellant had not sold a ticket to the constable. He had merely remitted his money to Tasmania with other sums, requesting that tickets be sent to names and addresses given, and the position was no different from the constable sending his own money. Before a ticketholder could be convicted, sale and purchase must take place in New Zealand, but remitting money did not amount, to purchase till the remitter received the ticket, and even then the purchase took place in Tasmania. Assuming that the court held that any person had the right to send direct for a ticket, the question upon which the whole Dominion waited a definite decision was whether it was unlawful to send through a third party, and was that third party an offender? The Court adjourned pending the judge’s return from the Appeal Court,