£IOO FINE.
w AUCKLAND GAMING RAID. [THB PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND. November 25. Another gaming raid was brought off this morning by Detective-Sergeant Me Hugh and Detective J. Nalder. who went to an office in Gladstone Buildings at 10.30 and arrested John William Hopkins, aged 3*3. a clerk, and Herbert Ivdward Langridge, aged 40, a salesman. At the Magistrate's Court before Mr Hunt. S.M., Hopkins was charged with using the premises of No. 10 Gladstone Buildings as a common gaming hous*». Detective-Sergeant McHugh, who prosecuted, said Hopkins was employed !>v a principal, who was absent at the time. Honk in* had not previously been before the Cotirt. but the prineipaj had. The business was an extensive one. Mr Hunt said that as the principal had been charged before he would treat it the same ns if he was again before the Court. Hopkins wa« fined £IOO. Langridge pleaded guilty to a charge of being found without lawful excuse •■ JjA oremises and was fined £2.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19786, 26 November 1929, Page 4
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