GAMING ACT PROSECUTIONS.
"More Light" lias written asking why the odd 188 men foupd together in a hall at Te Arolia are not being, prosecuted; I had hoped that someone would have answered him. The two men are to be brought before the Court on a charge of conducting a lottery and not of conducting a common gaming house. By a parity of the reasoning of "More Light," if two men started an art union for a charitable purpose every buyer of a ticket should*, be prosecuted. One frequently reads of two or three decent, respectable citizens committing this dreadful crime in ignorance of the law, and only they are haled before the Court. The Police Department acts in all eases without fear or favour, affection or illwill, as "More Light" will soon find out if he does something "agin the law." He will come a thud, and no political influence can help him. A.L.D.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 68, 21 March 1935, Page 6
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