GAMBLING DEN RAID
Assistant Manager Fined
By Telegraph—Press Association
Auckland, February 15.
“There has been fairly big business going on here, and it is looked on as one of the worst gambling dens in Auckland al the present time,” said Detective-Sergeant Mellugh, when Sylvester Picket!, aged 33. labourer, one of three men arrested in a raid on the Reservoir Billiard Saloon. Great North Road, on Saturday afternoon, appeared in the .Magistrate’s Court on a charge of assisting in the management of a common gaming-house. Detective-Ser-geant McHugh added that numerous complaints had been received about the premises. Young men, mostly on sustenance, were being encouraged to go there and a lot of drinking was going on. A number of empty bottles were found during the raid. Stating he must take notice of the police report and accused’s previous character, the magistrate said he must be fined substantially. A month would be allowed to pay a fine of £5O. provided lie reported twice weekly to the police.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 121, 16 February 1937, Page 10
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