LOTTERY ALLEGED.
Grocer Offers Tickets in ; Tee Packets. Per Press Association. i 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 twelfth 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 contain- j ed a ticket. Any person buying twelve . or six pounds was sure of a ticket. Defendant was charged in Court with disposing of tickets by chance. The facts were admitted. Defendant’s counsel submitted that defendant’s 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 keeping on buying pounds of tea till they received a ticket or could buy twelve or six pounds of tea and thus make sure of a ticket. Counsel 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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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20330, 13 June 1934, Page 4
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187LOTTERY ALLEGED. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20330, 13 June 1934, Page 4
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