GAMING BREACH.
FINE OF £IOO IMPOSED. (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 2G. Robert Arthur Drury, an accountant, aged 37, was fined £IOO, in default three months’ imprisonment, when he appeared before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., at a special sitting of the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, on a charge of using premises in Harakeke Street as a common gaming house. He pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant J. J. Halcrow said that he and Detective N. Thompson visited the house at 1.15 to-day and found him engaged in taking bets over the telephone. There were betting slips showing that he had taken £159 in bets on the Timaru races. The accused was op commission, he said, and received Is in the £. He was a married man with three children. Drury was given until 10 o'clock on Monday to pay the fine.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 192, 28 May 1945, Page 6
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