NEWSPAPER FINED

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1352, 12 March 1928, Page 3

NEWSPAPER FINED

CHARGES ARISE FROM RACING COMPETITION (Per Press Association), Auckland,' March 0. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Sun Newspaper, Limited, was lined .05 on each of tli-’ee charges brought under the Gaming Act as the result of racing competitions conducted last year . The charges were of establishing a, lottelry, 'receiving money in consideration to pay money on the contingency of a horse, race, and lastly with receipiug money as cousideraofievi for a, promise \(o pay £IOOO on the result of the New Zealand Cup and New Zealand Trotting Cup. In a reserved judgment, Mr McKean, S.M., said he was not prepared to deny that possession of some knowledge of the' form of the horses might- not be an advantage to competitors. However, the accurate placing of'horses at a. Cine when it was not known whether .some of the. horses would be scratched was a matter in Which the element of chance- predominated. It had keen decided that a. game in which there was a mixture of skill and chance could be unlawful. The defendants therefore, ho said, would lie convicted and fined £5 on each of the ll)rc6 charges.