TICKET SMUGGLING
CUSTOMS WAR ON SWEEPS LONDON. Oct. 22. The customs authorities at, Liverpool have dw lured war on professional sweepstake ticket smugglers. These smugglers:—men and women—travel backwards and forwards on boat'd, the bouts between Liverpool and Ireland, bringing thou sands of tickets into England and returning to Irdund with tht: money.
The game is made 'worth while because the extra tickets in each book are given as remuneration for scl'.ing the rest bf the tickets. The profit is generally about £1 for each .£(5 worth of tickets sold.
.Following"the success of the- Free State sweeps, other ventures have been organised and ticket's are to lie bought for various independent sweepstakes, mostly in aid of instilutiious in Ireland.
In some of the smaller sweeps tickets cost only- sixpence, arid the prizes' arc blocks of tickets in the trig Free State sweep oil the Mtntcheuier November Handicap. A steward on board one of the .Irish passenger boats says that several of the professional smugglers are. women. ‘‘They go round with tickets in English t clivus and cities hi the same wav as commercial .travellers do. I have seen attache eases -eramined with notes for Dublin. They are up to all sorts of dodges to got tickets past the customs officials. Sometimes tickets are hidden in. boxes labelled ‘‘Eggs with care,” sometimes in sealed fruit tins and chocolate boxes, and often in cases of machinery'. One of the nutliorilies’ latest captures iy stated to have been a box of ‘ ‘creamevv hunter’’ which wins being carefully watched by a woman passenger, and in which were found 1 .>.OOO hooks of tickets.,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17640, 2 December 1931, Page 5
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