LICENSING LAW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 April 1914, Page 5

LICENSING LAW.

CONVICTION FOR GAMBLING

BY TKLEGR.VPH VHESSJ ASSOCIATION

GREYMOTJTH, April 28. At the Magistrate's Couvt, Robert Knight, licensee of the Trafalgar Hotel, was charged with allowing gambling on his premises. A constable, seeing a light in the bar at 3.45 a.m. on Friday, made investigations. He entered by the top storey and came downstairs. He found the defendant in a room watching three men playing "snap poker," and money on the tablet. A conviction was recorded, with a fine of £7. The license w ras not endorsed^ as the players were all boarders, and; this was a first offence.