DISPOSING GOODS BY LOTTERY
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Jan. 30. Leslie Robert Jones, organiser and secretary of the Lyall Bay carnival, held last month, was charged before Mr Page, S.M., to-day with (1) having advertised his intention to dispose of watches, costumes, furniture, etc., amongst divers persons by means of a device whereby such property was to be divdJded or alloted by chance; (2) with having established a scheme by which prizes of money and goods ware to be gained by mode of chance. Defendant’s counsel admitted a technical breach. A fine of £1 and costs was imposed on each charge. It was stated in the Court that the carnival was a financial failure.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17780, 31 January 1920, Page 11
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