"POLICE ARE NOT BLIND"
♦- ' BOOKMAKING IN HOTELS REPORT TO LICENSING - COMMITTEE The incidence of bookmaking in a few hotels in the city was mentioned by Inspector H. Martin, of the Central Police Station, at the annual meeting of the Christchurch Licensing Committee yesterday. "I would like licensees to know that the police are not blind,” he said. “We do not want to take any unorthodox steps to combat touts in hotels, but we cab adopt means to prevent it.” The chairman of the committee (Mr H. A. Young, S.M.), quoting from Inspector Martin’s report on hotels, said that during the year convictions were recorded against five persons,.of whom two were barmen, for breaches of the Gaming Acts in hotels. There was nothing to indicate that the licensees of the hotels were aware of what was going on. Nevertheless, it was considered that if the licensees were exercising the control they should, then some knowledge must eventually come to them of these offences.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 24
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