BETTING RAID

Grey River Argus, 19 April 1929, Page 5

BETTING RAID

ON THREE PLACES Arrests At Auckland (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, April 18. Just before the time that the first race was due to start at the Whangarei meeting this morning, two detectives. assisted by a number of uniformed police, raided three premises in the city. They gathered in no few er than seven men on charges under the Gaming Act. Shortly after 11 o’clock, Robert Francis Burnett and Frederick James Dryland were arrested in Swanson Street, on charges of keeping a common gaming house and of assisting in he management of such respectively. Raymond Lewis was arrested 0:1 a charge of ti'ing premises in His ATaj esty’s Arcade as a common gaming house. Francis Brewer was taken into civ tody on a charge of using premises in Vulcan Lane fo r the same purpose. Austin McCormick was arrested on a charge of assisting in the manage meat of a common gaining house, while two other men were taken in charge for being found on the premises. At noon all of the men arrested’ were brought before a J.P. at the Police Cour*, and were remanded on bail to appear at the Police Court tomorrow morning.