BETTING IN A BAR
LICENSEE FINED £50
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A fine of £50 and costs was imposed on Thomas; Ebenezer Robinson) licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, by Mr! E. D; Mosley, S.M.,.today, on a charge of knowingly and wilfully permitting the private bar of the hotel to be used as a common gaming house by another person, Helen Gunn, on various dates. Security for' appeal was fixed at £12 12s, plus' the amount of the fine. The Magistrate said that the accused appeared to have assisted Gunn in every possible way. "It is one thing for a.hotelkeeper to discuss ra,ces and racehprses in a bar with customers; it is quite another thing for him knowingly to permit actual gambling such as the investment of money and payment of' dividends in a bar with and by one of his servants. I am satisfied that he knew of the betting and allowed it."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 8
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154BETTING IN A BAR Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 8
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