CROWN AND ANCHOR
SIXTEEN MEN FINED
A police visit to premises in Taranaki Street on Saturday night resulted in the appearance before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court today of sixteen men, each of ■whom pleaded guilty to having been found in a common gaming-house and was fined £2.
Two sergeants and seven constables executed a search warrant at the place on Saturday night, said Sub-Inspector D. J. O'Neill. Most of the men were playing crown and anchor in the kitchen.
None of the men had anything to say. They were William Devereux, a labourer, Charles Arthur Merrick McLean, a builders' labourer, Charles Taylor, a horse breaker, Thomas Smith, a slaughterman. Bernard George Patrick Farrell, a motor driver, Francis Hank Tremain, a mechanic, George William Eales, a labourer, Edward Lanceley, a labourer. Ernest Henry Lloyd, a chef, Leslie Wellman Holland, a labourer, Jack Rossine, a waterside worker, Daniel Mclntyre, a carpenter, Robert Crawford, a clerk. Percival Arnold Brattle, a painter, William Heavey, a labourer, and Joseph Smith, a labourer.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1939, Page 11
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172CROWN AND ANCHOR Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 38, 14 August 1939, Page 11
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