GAMING CHARGES
* SECRETARY OF A CLUB AT WESTPORT ORDERED TO CONTRIBUTE TO CHARITY (THE PRESS Special Service.] WESTPORT, February 24. John A. Wilson, secretary of the Kawatiri Rowing Club, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court, Westport, under the Gaming Act, with assisting in the conduct of a lottery and establishing a lottery by selling tickets in a competition on the Auckland Cup and Grandstand Handicap at the Auckland Racing Club’s Christmas meeting. Evidence was given by Constable George that a boy sold him a ticket in the competition. Sergeant C. J. King, for the police, said the club decided to augment its poor finances b'?’ running the competition. Wilson received no remuneration. , , .. Dismissing the charges under the Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, the Magistrate (Mr R. Ferner) ordered Wilson to pay £5 to some charitable institution. He stated that he considered the police justified in bringing forward the case, and the defendant should have known the scheme was wrong He could not regard it as trivial and would make the order mentioned, after viewing the case from all quarters, and having regard to Wilson’s future career.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22336, 25 February 1938, Page 14
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