PATRIOTIC RAFFLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 4

PATRIOTIC RAFFLES.

oPKOSE.CL'TIOXS VQ&LHLE. R v Telegraph—Spot ial Correspondent. ’ 'WELLINGTON, Aug. 9. Alarm exists in some centres, and especiallv in Dunedin, on account ot a rumor that the Government have directed that proceedings shad tut taken against carnival coniniittees and persons who have promoted and e.nried on. raffles lor patriotic purposes i without obtaining permission ironi the i Minister for Internal Alfairs. . so 121 !Ls can be learned., the Minister tor i Justice, whose function it would be, has not directed that any particular prosecutions, or, indeed, any prosecutions, shall ha launched. Nor has um Minister for Interna! Affairs any knowledge of auT proceedings pending, buttlie°decision as to whether or not proceedings shall be taken rests a itli t.*<police and no direction not to prosecute has been issued. On the ‘on trarv an intimation hay been given to the police by the Minister that person;promoting raffles should be vvarneu that they are breaking the iaw m proceeding without tue permission of - Minister. It is. therefore, quite open Tor the police to prosecute if ay.-arii-intr ] ia a been disregarded and it is just possible that there may be some prosecutions in any centres _ where . tne Superintendent of Police is or opinion that the law has been flagrantly violated