REMANDS GRANTED

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 July 1929, Page 9

REMANDS GRANTED

GAMING ACT CHARGES. ONE MAN PLEADS GUILTY. FINE OF 950 IMPOSED. There was an attendance of upwards or 100 spectators at the Hawera -Magistrate's Court this afternoon, when the nve men arrested as the resuUt of -raids k.y tTxe Hawera poiiee- la.st- Sia-tiurd’ay afternoon appeared on remand before Ai.r J H. Salmon, S.M. Detective A. B. Ale tide joint (New Plymouth) appeared for the poi'iice. Herbert Allen, billiard’ room keeper, was charged with carrying on the business' of a bookmaker, with keeping a common gaming house in Princes :and with having loitered in High Street on June 22 for the purpose of betting. Accused,, who was represented by Alt T. A. Kimnonjt, -pleaded not guilty to id: three charges. On the application of Detective Aleiklcjohn, a remand was- granted until July 31, accused being allowed hail in his own recognisance of £IOO, with a. surety of a- like amount.

Charged with having assisted in the management of a common gaming house in Union Street-, William Elder, for whom Air North appeared, pleaded not guilty, and, on the application of the police, who stated that their principal witness was at present in Wellington, was remanded until July 31, being allowed out on bail of £SO, with one surety of a like amount, Thomas Connell and Edward Lavery both pleaded not guilty to charges of having been found in an alleged l common gaining house, and were remanded by the magistrate until July 31 on bail of £5 ea'cli. ' ;

Thomas Henderson. Teesdale,, tearoom proprietor, of Union Street, was charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker and conducting a common gaming house. Accused, who- was not represented by counsel, pleaded guilty to- the second charge, the police tendering no evidence nil the first.

Detective Meildejollui stated that accused had been conducting the- Arcadia tea-rooms for the past six or seven months. On June 14 and 15, and also* on July 13, lie had been visited by a plain clothes- constable and bet.s made with him. Constable Afullam amid Soannell had visited the place last Saturday and had found, besides racing paraphernalia, the sum of £75 in the ■shop, £44 12s of which had been on accused. He had apparently been operating in a fairly big way and on business-like lines. Tliis was the first time that he had been before tile court. Accused bad nothing to say. “I will take* into consideration,’.’ said bis Worship, addressing Teesdale, “the fact that this' i.s your first offence, but from the circumstances outlined by _ the police. 1 imagine that your operations were fairly extensive. You will be convicted and fined £SO, in default three month s ’ i niprds’onment.