GAMING LAW
BOOKMAKER'S PROTEST "GOING TO FIGHT" HEAVY PENALTY (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. "I am a member of the Bookmakers' Association and proud of it. I am still going to fight so that we may be recognised," said Arthur George Williams, 46, a tobacconist, charged at the Police Court today with using premises | in Pitt Street as a gaming-house. | "The detectives who picked me up lon Saturday were only doing their i duty. It is the rotten legislation I am complaining about." The Magistrate (Mr. C. R. OrrWalker): This is hardly the place to air that. The legislation has been on the Statute Book for many years and is still there. "Well," said Williams, "I am not going to squib. If some of my colleagues now on a pedestal had not ratted the legislation would not have been still there. I am not going to pay a fine. I am going to gaol as a protest against the legislation." , The Magistrate imposed a fine of £100, default to be fixed in the usual way. Williams asked if he would be allowed time to pay. "I' thought you did not- want time, except time in gaol," said the Magistrate, who allowed seven days in which to pay.
After shaking hands with the two detectives who arrested him, Williams left the court carrying betting paraphernalia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 11
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225GAMING LAW Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1937, Page 11
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