HUMAN PARASITES

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 15 February 1929, Page 7

HUMAN PARASITES

CPer Pres* Association) / Dunnevirke, Feb. 14. Richard .Tones, alias Preston,, appeared 'before' two Justices on a game of playing a game of chance, crown and anchor, on the Dannevirke showgrounds yesterday. The police stated that when detected accused endeavoured .to covsr up the appliance, and later offered a constable money to let the matter drop. - ■ , '■

Accused, who had a list of previ-

ous convictions on variou offences, was lined £25. Mr Walter Dobson, J.P. said accused should not have been permitted on the race course. Such human parasites were allowed on showgrounds to prey upon the public. The sooner Section 33 of the Gaming-. Act was extended to Agricultural Slioiys the better. , "