AN APPEAL FAILS.
THE MULTIPLICATION BUREAU. HELD TO BE A LOTTERY. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, 'Friday. In a judgment delivered to-day Mr. Justice Smith dismissed the appeal of George Kennedy Elliott McLean against the Magistrate’s decision tha*, a scheme known as “The Multiplication Bureau” was a lottery. He ordered that £lO 10s costs be paid by the appellant. • The Judge said it was plain that ail a member had to do was to pay his subscription, enrol four other members, and then wait for his cash commissions. His Honour could not see how any knowledge experience, ait, or skill on the part of a member could be regarded as influencing the drawing by that member of the commissions. The main source of the cash commissions was the indirect enrolments, which depended purely on chance so far as the leceiving member was concerned. In law that was a finding that the distiibuticn of cash commissions depended upon chance, and that the scheme was a lottery.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 6
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165AN APPEAL FAILS. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19124, 8 December 1933, Page 6
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