GAMING HOUSE.
FINE OF SEVENTY-FIVE POUNDS. DEFENDANT DESCRIBED AS BIG BOOKMAKER. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 3. A find of £75 was imposed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day on Arthur Law, aged 56 years, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of using a room as a common gaming house. Two other men, Lewis Harris, a tailor, aged 48 years, and Lionel Zucker, an agent, aged 33 years, were charged witih being found in the room without lawful purpose. Harris was fined £2 and Zucker £5. Chief Detective Ward said that Law had been cal'lying on the business of a bookmaker for many years, and was one of the largest, if not the largest, bookmaker in the Dominion. Yesterdav detectives seized in a room in the Exchange Buildings occupied by the accused a large quantity of betting material. ..•* The defendant s books showed that over a period of five days during the Easter race meetings he had taken bets amounting to £1774. He had been before the Court in 1912 on two charges of publishing double charts. ~ , From the dock Law told the Magistrate, Mr Barton, that he had nothing to say. BREACH AT WANGANUI. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, April 2. Edward Nixon was fined £2O this morning for being the occupier of a shop used as a common gaming house.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7
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