PATRIOTIC LOTTERIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16035, 29 September 1915, Page 9

PATRIOTIC LOTTERIES.

| NEW LEGISLATION. INTERESTING PROVISIONS. [BY TELEGRAPH.SPECIAL correspondent.] Wellington. Tuesday. There are some interesting provisions in the Gaming Amendment Bill, which was circulated to-day. The second clause gives authority to dispose, by way of raffles, of real or personal property for the benefit of the war funds, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act or in any other law for the time Being in force relating to gaming and lotteries. The Minister for Internal 'Affairs has power to authorise any person or association to dispose of real or personal property, but shall not issue a license unless he is. satisfied that the property to which ft relates has been, or is to be, donated as a gift' for the purposes of a fund within the meaning of the War Fund Act, 1915. If any dispute arises as to the amount that may be deducted by way of expenses the decision of the Minister shall be final and conclusive.

A sychronising measure is the Auctioneers Amendment Bill, under the provisions of which any person, whether a licensed auctioneer or not, may sell by auction any real or personal property, provided the money is for the benefit of war funds. No person who is not a licensed auctioneer shall sell by auction under the proposed Act unless he is specially authorised in writing to do so by a stipendiary magistrate or by the Mayor of the city or borpugh, or the chairman of the county or town district in which the sale is to take place, or by the society of trustees controlling the war fund to which the proceeds of the sale are to be paid.