GAMING ACT CHARGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1936, Page 14

GAMING ACT CHARGES

AUCKLAND CHINESE ARRESTED. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, December 20., Detectives raided premises in Grey’s Avenue, and 18 Chinese they arrested have been charged with breaches of the Gaming Act. About four years ago two men rushed into the basement of these premises, attacked the keeper, put out the lights, and decamped with money which was lying on a table. To-day the detectives found the light switches enclosed in a locked bok, gas jets w’ere burning as well as electric lights, and two wire cages, also locked, held the “bank.” to prove that the Chinese had taken every precaution. Some of the Chinese sitting round the two 'tables when the Detectives entered had considerable sums of money on them. One had £340, another £lO2, a third £BO, a fourth £6O. and several had sums ranging between £lO and £2O. The police seized a quantity of betting material as well as the wire cages, the latter, being screwed down to the tables. At a special sitting of the court the defendants were remanded. CONVICTIONS AT GISBORNE. GISBORNE, December 19 As a result of raids on gaming houses, fine totalling £l4O were imposed on three men by Mr. W. H. Walton, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Samuel James Bardswell was fined £5O for keeping a common gaming house; Maurice William Costello, £3O for bookmaking, and Laurence Kenny £6O for being the occupier of a common gaming house.