MECHANICAL HARE COURSING

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 8

MECHANICAL HARE COURSING

JUDGMENT IN BETTING CASE. (Rec. October 4, 8.45 p.m.) Sydney, October 4. Mr. Justice Campbell, in Chambers, delivered his reserved judgment in the mechanical hare betting case. He stated that there were no fundamental differences in principle, in objective and method between enclosed coursing and mechanical hare coursing. In both cases it was a question of speed and cleverness, therefore lie found that betting on mechanical hare coursing was legal, and tho rule nisi granted was made absolute. [ln a test case in which a well-known bookmaker was charged with betting at a mechanical hare racing meeting the Magistrate imposed a penalty of J 220, ruling that mechanical racing was not a true coursing meeting at which the Betting Act permitted betting. Notice of appeal was lodged, and in private Chambers the bookmaker concerned applied for a statutory prohibition restraining tho Magistrate and police prosecutor from further proceeding with the Magistrate’s order under which the bookmaker was convicted. The Judge granted a rule nisi for tho prohibition applied for.]