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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 18, 21 January 1921, Page 8

Complaints have been made to the police recently that several young men have annoyed passengcre on the harbour ferry steamer Duchess by gambling while passing to and from Eastbourne. A few days ago a plain-clothes constable was detailed to keep a look-out, and for three evenings kept ■» watch on three young men, Basfl H. Roa, Albert E. Roa, and Herbert H: Sullivan, who were engaged. in games of draw poker on the boat. No money was passed, but the nlayers kept a detailed record of the hands. This morning, when they were called before _ Mr. F. K. Hunt; S.M., at the Magistrate's Court on charges of playing a game of chance in a public place, they denied that there was ever any " squaring ud" or intention of doing so; the records, they said, were merely carried on from day to ,day. The Magistrate commended the police on their action, but dismissed the information, as there was insufficient evidence to prove the charges. Similar charges were laid against two men, Mossan Hampton and Charles Matin, who had, on their own admission, engaged in 'a friendly, game on the train while on their way to the recent Stratford Show. Each was fined £1 and costs. . • . Mr. MlGirr,'New'South Wales Minister for Public Health and Motherhood, stated last week that,,-as a result of a conference between representatives of the State Government and the Sydney University it had been decided to appoint a Jjrofessor to the Chair of Psychiatry, at a salary of £1100 per annum.. .. ' _<