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BOOKMAKER FINED. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, November 9. William Alfred Mackay, 39, bookmaker, was fined £lOO to-day, for keeping a common gaming house. It was his fifth offence under the Gam ing Act, and the previous fines included two of £lOO. Magistrate Hunt said that some of these offenders seemed to regard the £lOO fines in the light of a license fee. Accused’s counsel assured the Magistrate that times were hard for bookmakers, as for other people, and £lOO for a license was by no means cheap. The Magistrate, in imposing the fine, said, “It’s his last chance. It will be three months’ next time.”
REMOVAL OF POWER POLES AUCKLAND, November S Judgment in the first case of kind in New Zealand was given tet by Justice Herdman, who held a( i the Waitemata County no legal right to require mata Electric Power Board hoving bute towards the cost of n on H power poles from one po l County road to another. G absolute “The Power Board an ff if right to erect poles as £he Council’s they stood in the way_ t j onS| jt was road improvement o to got r id of the Council’s busii> ense » sa id the them at its own Judge.
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Grey River Argus, 10 November 1931, Page 7
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