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ALLEGED LOTTERY TICKETS IN PACKETS OF TEA I DECISION RESERVED (Per United Press Association.) Dannevirke, June 12. To promote the sale of a certain brand of tea, Hamlet-Eagle, a grocer, advertised that he would give a Lucky Cat art union ticket in every 12th packet of tea purchased. Subsequently the offer was increased to one ticket in every sixth pound of tea. The tea was stacked in such order that every sixth pound contained a ticket and any person buying 12 or six pounds was sure of a ticket.
Defendant was charged in court with disposing of tickets by chance. The facts were admitted by defendant’s counsel who submitted the scheme was not a lottery because the customers could, in at least two ways, make sure of a prize. They could enter the shop and keep on buying pounds of tea till they received a ticket, or could buy 12 or six pounds of tea and thus make sure of a ticket. He quoted cases to show that if skill or effort could contribute to success, then there was no lottery. Decision was reserved by Mr Miller, S.M.
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Southland Times, Issue 22348, 13 June 1934, Page 8
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190GROCER’S SCHEME Southland Times, Issue 22348, 13 June 1934, Page 8
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