BREACHES OF GAMING LAW.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 145, 19 May 1930, Page 2

BREACHES OF GAMING LAW.

WELLINGTON RAID. WELLINGTON, May 18. “It may be, as counsel has said, that in the past a education was not completed until he had been initiated into the ways of gambling and that in those days this defendant would bo only providing that opportunity; but the legislature of today says that shall not be so, and has provided a penalty.” With these words, Mr T. B. McNeil, S.M., in tho Police Court on Saturday, fined Joseph Hall, a billiardroom keeper, £ls for using his premises as a common gaming house. The case arose out of a police raid on Friday night of a billiard saloon in York Chambers, 31 Manners Street, when the proprietor and fourteen others were arrested. The following, who appeared on a charge of having been found in a common gaming house without lawful excuse, were each fined £2 and costs: James Martin Hickie, plumber, aged 19; John Nelson Beattie, Storeman, aged 22; Joseph Mallia, labourer, aged 21; Edward John Prince, motor driver, aged 28; Joseph Woodward, boilermaker, aged 24; Frank Charles Carter, seaman, aged 21; John Alexander Larwood, storeman, aged 19; Samuel Barker, motor driver, aged 29; Harold Allan Green, metalworker, aged 21; Victor Alexander Collins, plumber, aged 18; Ronald Desmond Cudby, seaman, aged 19. Three of the youths arrested, who were under the age of 18, were remanded to appear in the Juvenile Court on Saturday next. With the exception of Hickie, Mallia, Larwood and Collins, the others pleaded guilty. HAIRDRESSER FINED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 18. Arrested by Detective Nalder and Detective-Sergeant McHugh on _ a charge of keeping a common gaming house, Henry John aged 33, a resident of Parnell, was fined £25 at the Police Court yesterday. “He is a hairdresser by occupation,” said Chief-Detective Hammond, “and he takes this on as a side line.” It was stated that Ruston took bets yesterday morning to the value of £5 or £6. " It was his first offence.