League Hub Warned About Gambling, Drink

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30210, 15 August 1963, Page 12

League Hub Warned About Gambling, Drink

{Mew Zealand PrtM Assoctatidn)

AUCKLAND, August 14. Use Bab Bay Deague Oub had better turn i» outer ways of finanoiog ite udlfivaties or it wouM find itereK abort ot official, fted Mr T. McCarthy. S.M.. in fte Magistmte’s Court at Auckland. Tte MaghHntte warned the four men be&re total on gsming and Kqunr cfaaflges that should toere be a repetotion of tte offences theta chanced of avoiding prison would be stan. He said he was taktag a Jenient view on this occatton bearaae » was satisfied tte chdb was genuine and was entertening its members. W&n Matthew Ttemey, aged 38, a butcher, was oonv.cted of being tte occupier of Ghendi Hall on two cessions when he knowingly and wilfuMy permitted the hall to be used as a common gaming house. He w®s fined £2O and £3O. CcxwicCed of being a painty to the iffiegal sale of liquor in hhe haffl, be was fined £l5 on each of two charges. William Lyell Harvey, aged 34, a driver, was fined £3O for conducting a common gaming house, and George Wiltard Pirihi, aged 40, a labourer, was fined tte same amount for assisting Harvey. Matti Davis, aged 50, a fish cu<rer, was fined £l5 for selling liquor without a licence and £5 for being found in a common gaming house, Senior-Sergeenit G. A. Dailow said the charges arose from two visits paid by a con-

stable to the hall in Freemans Bay Constable J. A. Scrimshaw said be paid 5s to gain entrance to Ute baM where on toe first ooaasuon there were 80 to 100 peopte. Some were dbneite to a.smaH bond. Mott were sitting around tte walls drinking beer, some were playing crown and anchor. Counsel for tte accused. Mr D B. Plain, produced receipts from sports suppliers and for grqund changes to toow that the dub genuinely catered for ita member' who ph?yed league and cricket and frequentdy hired buses to play maitcbes in other parts of toe country. The Magistrate said toe dub was a far. far cry from toe ordinary a9y grog den, but tots form of practice cculd not be countenanced, perticulariy because of toe bad effect it could have on ycung people. ■ ;