LOTTERY CASE.
IS EMBELLISHED FURNITURE A WORK OF ART?
(Per Press Association.) • DUNEDIN, July 9
At the Police Court this morning, Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., gave judgment in a case in which the secretary of tlic' railway pioneers’ carnival was charged with disposing of personal property by means of a lottery. The point was whether a suite of furniture embellished by carving became works of art, and legally capable of being raffled. The case was taken as a test. The Magistrate did not see how it could be contended that an entire suite was in itself a , work bf art. Ordinary trade articles had been embellished by the addition of artistic work of a comparatively minor nature, which was an •accident, not an essential to the articles. As the case was a test, and the conduct of defendant had been bona fide arid open, a fine of Is, without costs, would be imposed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2550, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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152LOTTERY CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2550, 10 July 1909, Page 5
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