BETTING AT HOTEL
CHRISTCHURCH MEN FINED.
[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRISTCHURCH, October 30.
Four men were convicted of offences connected with bookmaking, and fined amounts totalling £lOO, by Mr. Mosley, S.M., Accused were caught red-handed on Saturday, when plain clothes constables and detectives made arrests. The fines were: Maurice George Morton, 68 yeai-s, described as a bookmaker, £2O; William Joseph Brosnahan, 39 years, butcher, £2O; John Harris Brisk, 30, motor driver, £2O. Hugh Herlihy, 43, a barman, charged with using the public bar of the United Service Hotel as a common gaming house, was fined £4O. Morton and Herlihy were arrested at the bar of the United Setwise Hotel, and the others at a whippet meeting at Bushey Park. The Magistrate said he was surprised that such business should be carried on at one of the leading hotels. He felt sure that the Licensing Committee would have something to say about it.
A third man arrested at Bushey Park was remanded.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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