GAMING HOUSE RAID.
WELLINGTON PROSEOJTIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Charges against a number of men arrested as the result of police raids on alleged gaming-houses in Wellington were heard at the Magistrate's Court to-day. Gilbert H. Price, charged with being the owner and occupant of premises he used as a common gaminghouse, was fined £40, or in default two months' imprisonment. For assisting Price to conduct a gaming-house, John H. West -was fined £20, or one month's imprisonment, and Waipuki Smith £10, or 21 days' imprisonment. Denis F. Holland, William Andrews, William Wortley, George A. Peacock, and 1 "nomas Harding, charged with being found without lawful excuse in a common gaming-house, .were each fined 20/. Albert \V. Organ, the proprietor of a bookstall in the vestibule of the Grand Hotel, was charged with betting on licensed premises, and was fined £25, or one month's imprisonment. The charge against Albert V. Stewart, of keeping a common gaming-house, and that against George Dyhrberg, for assisting Stewart, were partly heard. The cases will be continued to-morrow.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 11
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