LOTTERIES LEGISLATION

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1934, Page 5

LOTTERIES LEGISLATION

OBJECT OF PARLIAMENT TICKETS FROM ABROAD STOPPED BY POST OFFICE NO CRIME TO ORDER THEM By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 26. Sir John Gilmour, Home Secretary, in reply to Mr. T. Levy (Conservative), said in the House of Commons that it would not be an offence under the new Lotteries Act for a person in Britain tb apply for a Dublin lottery ticket, but it would frustrate Parliament’s intention for the post office to be used for the dissemination of Irish or other overseas lottery tickets. The existing practice would, therefore, be continued, under which the Pdstmas-tev-General, acting under instructions, would detain tickets sent through the post by lottery promoters in Ireland and other countries. Mr. Levy: How do you reconcile that it is legal to send 10s to Ireland for a lottery ticket but when the ticket is dispatched from Ireland it would be stopped in the post? Are we to understand that every letter from Ireland will be intercepted? Sir John Gilmour: It is quite clear that it is Parliament’s intention to stop this practice and that will be done. Mr. W. Thorne (Labour): If I send for six tickets and sell five to other members of the House of Commons, will that be illegal? Sir John Gilmour did not-reply.