A HEAVY FINE
AUCKLAND GAMING-HOUSE
(By Telegraph—Pregg Agsociation.)
AUCKLAND, This Day.
Pleading guilty to a charge of conducting a gaming-house raided by the police on October 25, John Sydney Cormack (29), motor-driver, was fined £40, in default six weeks" imprisonment, and allowed three days to pay.
Detective-Sergeant McHugh, conducting the police case, asked for a heavy penalty, stating that thirty-five persons, including girls and young women, were arrested on the premises. Not only were the.girls gambling, but some were drinking beer out of bottles. "This is the worst class of gaminghouse we have had in Auckland," he said, "and the worst I have seen in 23 years'experience."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 10
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107A HEAVY FINE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 10
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