CHARGES DISMISSED.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. Sept. 17. Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., to-aay gave judgment in the ease where the mana§er of the Empress Theatre, Lester inclair, was charged on two informations with awarding prizes to occupants of certain numbered seats by chance. The magistrate said that his decision must depend on whether the distribution of the prizes was made upon an honost judgment, upon some question of merit or desert, or whether it had been given merely by accident, or, as had been said in one case, “was it the mind or the dice that had decided the destination of the prize.” From the evidence he was not prepared to say that Sinclair, in choosing recipients for gifts or prizes, had not acted upon a really honest and bona fide judgment. . Both charges were dismissed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 18 September 1929, Page 5
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137CHARGES DISMISSED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 248, 18 September 1929, Page 5
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