THREE FINES IMPOSED.
FRUIT MACHINES,SEIZED.
(Per Press Association).
AUCKLAND, July 3
“These gaming machines constitute one of the greatest rackets ever brought to this city ; w r e have had more complaints ajfout these than ainy other form of gambling or crime,” said De-tective-Sergeant McHugh, when four men pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to charges of keeping common gaming houses. Mr McHugh asked the Magistrate, Mr W. J. Molding, S [ .M. to impose the maximum penalty—£loo. The defendants were Spencer Frank Brownie, aged 55, a tobacconist, James Alfred Sparks, aged 41, a. grocer, Patrick Henry Rice Daly, aged 31, a. confectioner, and Clarence George Henson, aged 38, a milk-bar proprietor. \ (Mr McHugh said that after complaints that young married men. were gambling on fruit machines, police visted the premises on Friday, and seized seven machines. Playing at one machine a youth lost £3 in half an hou,r. At another a. man lost £7 then struck a “jackpot” hut the machine would not function then and the defendant Browne would not pay out. Henson, who Had been previously before the Court, was fined £SO, and the others £25 each.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 223, 4 July 1939, Page 7
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