PRINTING BOOKMAKERS' ODDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 2 August 1911, Page 5

PRINTING BOOKMAKERS' ODDS.

CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 1. Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M;. gave his decision m the adjourned case of tne police v. Alexander Wildey, in which the defendant was charged "with having printed a document containing a notification, on behalf of a person, on certain horse races to be run. The evidence showed that defendant printed a card giving a bookmaker's odds regarding the Grand National Steeplechase, the Grand National Hurdles, and the Win-' ter Cup. Mr Cassidy, for the defendant, at the hearing of the case cited the case of Barnett v. Bishop, known as the "Daylight Case," the Court on that_ occasion having held that it was not illegal to print racing information, unless some person of the club was mentioned in the publication. The card that Mr Wildey printed did not contain the name of the person for whom it was printed. In giving his decision, the Magistrate said that the present case was clearly distinguishable from the case of Barnett v. Bishop, and heintended to convict defendant. He understood that the Inspector of Police, in his capacity of Justice of the Peace, had demanded the production of a duplicate copy of everything he printed. "Why was it not produced on demand?" Mr Cassidy replied that he did not know. He had no information on that point. The Magistrate, "Very well; the defendant is fined £10 and costs."