LOTTERY PROVED
BOOTSELLERS' CONVICTED (Per Pres? Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. E. Page, S.M., gave reserved judgment to-day in a case in which Brady and Co., boorsellers, were charged with conducting a lottery aitd obstructing traffic by throwing boots and shoes on to the street to celebrate the opening of a new shop, the mates being obtainable on applying inside the shop. The magistrale found the charge of lottery established, there being no case in which such a. charge had been dismissed because the distribution was gratuituous. The broach of the law was no] serious, and a line of £2 on each charge, with costs, was imposed.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 6
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107LOTTERY PROVED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 6
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