NOT SERIOUS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 105, 6 May 1927, Page 8

NOT SERIOUS

TOTALISATOR EMPLOYEE'S

MISTAKE

What was described as the first case of its kind on record, so far' as the Wellington Racing Club was concerned, was heard in tho Magistrate's Court to-day, when a female totalisator employee pleaded guilty to selling a number of tickets to a youth, aged nineteen, in contravention of the Gaming Act. It was stated that the Act stipulated that only persons of twenty-one and over wore cntitlod to purchase totalisator tickets.

Counsel for the defendant submitted that totalisator employees were often at a disadvantage in trying to gauge the ages of their clients. He asked for the infliction of a nominal fine.

Mr. W. G. Riddell, S.M.: "Certainly there is some difficulty at times^ when there are big queues, in observing the persons coming to the windows."

Senior-Sergeant Lander: "I am instructed that there were only two people in the race at the time."

Mr. Riddell: "In that case, she should have been more observant. Still, tho offence is not a very serious one. She will be fined £1."

The defendant's name was ordered to bo suppressed.