THE ABOLITION OF SWEEPS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9238, 28 June 1893, Page 6

THE ABOLITION OF SWEEPS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Th e New South Wales Amended Postal Act certainly appears to be absolutely prohibitory of any lottery, game of chance, or foretelling of future events. The clause affecting sweep promoters and others is perfectly clear in its prohibition, and admits of no interpretation otherwise. Here it is verbatim ct literatim :— " If the Postmaster-General has at any time reasonable ground to suppose any person to be engaged in receiving any money or valuable thing as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement expressed or implied to pay or give, or to procure or induce any other person to pay or give any money or valuable thiug on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race, or other race, or any tight, game, sport, or exercise, or to bo .engaged in promoting or carrying out any scheme connected with any such assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement as aforesaid, or any lottery, game of chance or unlawful game, or in receiving money under pretence of foreselling future events, or to be engaged in any illegal or fraudulent business or undertaking then the said Postmaster-General may, if he think lit, by notifying in the Gazette, order that no letter, packet, newspaper, or parcel, addressed to any such, person, either by his own or any fictitious or assumed name, or to any address without a name, shall be registered or delivered to any such person. The notification shall specify every name, whether real, fictitious, or assumed* and every address in respect of which the order is made and the order shall, upon notification thereof, continue in force until the Post-mu3ter-Gcncral shall cancel it, which he is hereby empowered to do by notice in the Gazette ; and if, while such order is in force, any letter addressed to any such person by any name, or to any address, so specified as aforesaid, be received at any post office, it shall not bo delivered to the person to whom or at the address to which it is addressed, but shall at once be sent to the dead-letter olfice in Sydney, and shall, if it were originally posted in New South Wales, be opened, and immediately returned to the sender, or if not originally posted in New South Wales, be returned unopened to the colony or country whence it originally came. While such order is in force no money order shall be issued in favour of any person with respect to whom the order has been made, and no money order shall be paid to any such person."