NEW GAMING SUIT.

Grey River Argus, 25 February 1927, Page 5

NEW GAMING SUIT.

BY THE POLICE. TO CLOSE UP PREMISES ALTOGETHER. CHRISTI •lIURCII. Feb. 23. For the first time in Now Zealand, the police have moved ander the Gaminij Act Io secure a declaration from the Supreme Court that certain premises are a common gaming house. The effect of such a declaration is to close the ’'remises against use for any pur Dose wlmtsoSvi r, ’.intil the declaration is removed. The applications, which concerned certain premises, Nos. 171—173, in Madras Street, came before Justice Adams to-day. The front room of No. 172 w;is occupied as a bookshop, and a room

at the back was used by bookmakers. In No. 173, the owner, Walter Hulstou. the respondent in the application, had a tobacconist s shop. In June of last year, the police raided the premises and two men were fined £lOO, In January the police raided again, and found betting going on, under new mar.agetnent. Prosecutions and fines followed. charge against Hulstou of permitting the premises to be used as a common gaming house was dismissed by the Magistrate. Tire defence to the present application was that Hulstou was not aware of the business carried on in th” back room. The Judge reserved his decision.