GAMING OFFENCES.
FINES IMPOSED. Per Press Association. CHRIST CHURCH, Oct. 30. Four men convicted of offences connected with hookmaking were. fined amounts totalling £IOO by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M. Accused, were caught red-handed on Saturday when plain clothes constables and detectives made arrests. The fines were as follow: Maurice George Morton, aged 66. described as a bookmaker, £2O; ’William Joseph Brosnahan, aged 39,_ a butcher, £2O; John Hands Prisk, aged 30, a motor driver, £2O. Hugh Herlihy, aged 43, a barman, charged with using the public bar of the United Service Hotel as a common gaming house, was fined £4O. Morton and Herlihv were arrested in the bar of the hotel and the others at a whippet meeting at Bushey Park. The Magistrate said he was supriced that such a business should have been carried on in one of the leading hotels. Ho felt sure the Licensing Committee would have something to say about it. A third man arrested at Bushey Park was remanded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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165GAMING OFFENCES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1933, Page 8
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