GAMBLING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13596, 16 May 1908, Page 6

GAMBLING.

SWEEP PROMOTER FIXED.

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, May 15

Before Mr Riddell. S.M.. to-day. Charles Frederick Priest, tobacconist and hairdresser, pleaded guilty to a charge ot unlawfully selling at Petonw a ticket by which permission was given to tire purchaser thereof to have- an interest in a scheme under which prizes wete gained by chance. The chief detective said that the defendant had sold to a constable in plain clothes, two tickets in a sweep on the Wanganui steeplechase. Twenty - five thousand subscribers, at 2s each, were supposed to enter for the sweep, the first prize to he £750, the second £SOO, third £IOO, and others to divide £2OO, third defendant charged 2s 3d for each ticket, reserving 3d for himself as commission. Counsel stated that the accused did not know he was breaking the law. Only fifteen tickets had been sold in Petone, and the money had since been returned to the purchasers. Defendant was fined £2 and costs, and Percy Simpson, his assistant was fined £l.

John Turner, on a similar charge, was fined £2.