Pyramid charge in Auckland
PA Auckland A company director) yesterday faced the first! prosecution in the District! Court at Auckland, resulting' from an alleged pyramid game. Ivan Charles Hogg, aged 35, of Mount Albert, denied two charges of organising on Thursday a pyramid! money game, an illegal I game of chance in that the; chances involved are not! equal as between all partici-j pants, and permitting his premises at 20 Morningside [
Drive, Morningside; to be ' used for the playing of the! gjime. Mr K. P. McDonald asked' for interim name suppres-l sion of publication of name for Hogg. He said there had: been considerable publicity! about the pyramid game and! Thursday night’s raid. I He said his client denied the charges and one defence would be that it was not an illegal game of chance. Judge Mac Lean refused the application for, suppression of the '■publication of the defendant’s . natrne and adjourned the case until Julv 29. ;;.m ‘ . I
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