GAMBLING SCHOOL
A NEGLIGENT SCOUT
SEVEN MEN FINED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.l
NEW PLYMOUTH, November 30,
A lapse on the part of a scout posted to give the alarm was responsible for the disclosure of a gambling school at Moturoa on November 16 and the appearance in the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court before Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., today of eight waterside workers.
John Shore pleaded guilty to a charge of using the waterside workers' rooms as a common gaming-house and was fined £10.
Charged with being found without lawful excuse in a common gaminghouse, six men—Thomas Harris, George Hedley, Clarence Eugene Hoskin, Horace John Cole, Laurie Fitzpatrick, and Leo Kendall, all of whom pleaded guilty—were each fined £3, with two months to pay. A similar charge against Richard Williams was dismissed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 16
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131GAMBLING SCHOOL Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 16
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