GAMING CHARGES
FINES AT CHRISTCHURCH.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Christchurch, February 18.
In the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr. E. D. Mosley, SAR, Patrick Walsh was charged with conducting his premises at Hills Road as a common gating house. Robert Michael Cox was charged with assisting Walsh in the conduct of a common gaming house, and Albert Khouri was charged with being on the premises. The three defendants were convicted. Walsh was fined £lOO, Cox £75, and Khouri £2, with costs in each case. “If during the next few years Walsh comes before me again, and the evidence is strong enough for a conviction, he will go to gaol,” remarked the Magistrate. The Magistrate said: “I mix with people, and play bowls and such other sports as are in keeping with Magisterial dignity. I hear people talking, and one cannot lose sight of the fact that Cox and Walsh have been carrying on the business for a great number of years. Although I have not betted with these men, I know dozens of people who have.”
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 124, 19 February 1929, Page 13
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