BETTING IN HOTELS
LICENSING COMMITTEE'S VIEW
Tho recent prosecutions against bookmakers who carried on their business in city hotels were referred to at the annual meeting of the Wellington District Licensing Committee to-day. s "The police report shows that during th*e last quarter bookmakers were convicted for doing business in three hotels, and barmen in a similar number of hotels were fined for bookmaking," remarked the chairman (Mr. W. G. Eiddell, S.M.). "There is not .sufficient evidence to show that the bookmaking was carried on with the knowledge of the licensees, but it is obvious that if bookmaking is carried on in any hotel, there must be a lack of proper supervision, and it will be well for the licensees concerned to see that the practice is prevented, as far as possible, in their hotels. If proof can be brought that bookmaking is carried on knowingly they render themselves liable under the Gaming Act. The offence is regarded by the committee with disfavour and it certainly will handicap licensees in future applications to tho committee."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 10
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175BETTING IN HOTELS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 130, 6 June 1927, Page 10
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