BREACHES OF GAMING LAWS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24446, 21 December 1944, Page 3

BREACHES OF GAMING LAWS

FINES TOTALLING £2BO IMPOSED

(P.A.) • DANNEVIRKE, December 20. For breaches of the gaming laws, Richard Walsh, a stationer, was fined £6O in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. It wa* Walsh’s second offence of this nature. George Aiding, a billiards-room keeper, John Henry Potter, a salesman, and John Benjamin Baker, a billiards-room keeper were each fined £4O. for using their premises as a gaming-house. Baker was alsc fined £IOO for betting on the Woodville racecourse. .

Large Naval Tanker Sunk.—The loss of the auxiliary oil tanker Mississinewa (23.000 tons) in the central Pacific through enemy action is announced in a United States Navy communique. She carried a normal complement of 250. of whom about 3 per cent, were saved. An unidentified pilot of a small naval float aeroplane again and again taxied up to the rim of the flames and threw out a towline, thus saving many men from the blazing tanker.—Washington, Dec. 19. . Record Pacific Flight.—A fast transpacific trip was made by a Liberator of the Royal Air Force Transport Command, which reached Sydney yesterday. Making four hops, the aircraft flew from San Francisco to Sydney in 42 hours. The actual flying time, was 35 hours 50 minutes, which is claimed to be a record.' Ten vears ago the late Air Commodore Sir Charles Kmgsford Smith, in the Southern Cross, flew a similar route, taking 80J hours. —Sydney. Dec. 20. _