ILLEGAL LOTTERY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 5

ILLEGAL LOTTERY

YOUNG WOMAN FINED. AUCKLAND, Friday. For selling tickets in an illegal lottery, which the police described us “undoubtedly a fraud,” a young woman, Ada Ball, was fined £2 and costs by Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., in tho Magistrate’s Court, on the charge of selling tickets at Napier on Bth February in a lottery which was prohibited by the Gaming Act. Mr Noble appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty.

Senior-Detective Hall said that on 16th January last Miss Ball answered an advertisement in an Auckland paper, and, as a result, she was engaged as a sales organiser by a man who engaged her under the name of “J. S. Burke.” Burke made arrangements for the printing and numbering of tickets in an illegal lottery, and on 31st January Miss Ball left Auckland in a motor car with four others and commenced a tour of the North Island, selling tickets at Thames, Tauranga, Te Puke, Opotiki and Napier. At Napier the party came under the notice of tho police, who obtained over 400 books, each containing 40 tickets at 6d each. Mr Noble produced a reply from “J. S. Burke,” asking Miss Ball to call and sec him about a position. She did so, and received full instructions. “It might be a low-down fraud, but my client had nothing whatever to do with the introduction of this lottery,” said Mr Noble. “She was trusting and confiding, and this man Burke must have been a plausible person.” Mr Hunt: She should have gone to the police or some other reliable place and found out about the lottery, and also whether it was honest. She will have to be more careful in future.” “I would like to have a word or two with this Mr Burke,” said the magistrate.

‘So would we all,” replied Mr Noble,