Gaming Fines Total £125
DETECTIVE’S COMMENT ON FRUIT MACHINES Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 3. “These gaming machines constitute one of the greatest rackets ever brought to this city, and we had moro complaints about these than any other iorrn of gambling or crime,’’ said DetectiveSergeant McHugh when four men pleaded guilty in tho Police Court to charges of keeping common gaminghouses. Mr. McHugh asked the Magistrate, Mx - . J. Molding, to impose the maximum penalty of £IOO. The defendants were Spencer Frank Browne, 55, tobacconist; James Alfred Sparks, 41, grocer; Patrick llenry Rice Daly, 31, confectioner; and Clarence George Henson, 38, milk-bar proprietor. Mr. McHugh said that as a result of complaints that young married men were gambling on fruit machines the police visited the premises on Friday and seized seven machines. Playing at one machine a youth lost £3 in half-an-hour. At another a man lost £7, then struck the “jackpot,” but the machine would not function then and the defendant Browne would not pay out. Henson, who had previously been before the Court, was fined £SO, and the others were fined £25 each.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 155, 4 July 1939, Page 7
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