MERCER’S LOTTERY SCHEME
NOMINAL PENALTY INFLICTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Reserved judgment was given by Mr. Mosley, S.M., this morning, in the case in which Reginald Henry Stillwell, Mercer, of High Stret, was charged with an offence under the Garßng Act. Defendant was convicted and a nominal penalty inflicted. The magistrate remarked that the main reason why the action had been taken was to advertise the fact that sueh schemes as Stillwell had promoted were illegal. The charge concerned a lottery arranged by Stillwell, ■who gave numbered dockets to customers, the prize being a tea-set.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1927, Page 9
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