KEPT GAMING-HOUSE
PUBLICAN FINED £2O “You must*have known the risk you were running,” said Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court vestefdav, to Michael Bourke, licensee of the City Hotel, Clyde Quay, when he pleaded guilty to using his premises as a common gaming house. Detective-Sergeant Holmes informed the Court that for some lime past Bourke had been in the habit of taking bets from clients. The premises were raided on Wednesday, small amounts being found. Mr. C. A. L. Treadwell appeared for accused and stated that his client was acting only in a small way as an agent, the amounts taken each week not exceeding £2. Bourke was in receipt of a salary of £8 per week, was married, and was the sole support of his two aged parents. It was not likely, added Mr. Treadwell, that his client would do this thing again. He had been foolish enough to try to supplement his income by taking bets, and now had lost his license. Bourke was fined £2O and was given seven days in which to pay.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 11, 7 October 1927, Page 10
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