GAMING ACT BREACHES
DUNEDIN MAN FINED £IOO (PRESS ASSOCIATIOH TELEQBAM.) DUNEDIN, November 12. James David Thomas Pearson was fined £IOO for keeping a gaming house. The police said that on Friday, when the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting was held at Christchurch, detectives paid a surprise visit to the defendant's house, where they found Pearson in a room fitted as an- office taking telephone bets. In the room were double charts and race cards. Records of 60 bets amounting to £39 were also found. The defendant had previously been fined £2O for bookmaking. £SO for street betting, and £IOO for keeping a gaming house. He was one of the biggest bookmakers in Dunedin, if not in New Zealand.
WANGANUI MEN FINED UTtISS ASSOCIATION teligeamj WANGANUI, November 12. Frank Sanko was fined £SO to-day by Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., for keeping a common gaming house. Neville Bernard Hooker, for wilfully permitting premises to be used for gaming, was fined £lO. WELLINGTON CASES (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEQEAM.) WELLINGTON, November 12. Neville Latimer, aged 48, a confectioner, was fined £75 by Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., for carrying on business as a bookmaker. Jack Devany was fined £SO for keeping premises at Petone as a common gaming house. Jacob Maurice Moses was fined £25 for keeping a billiards room as a common gaming house.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 15
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