BREACHES OF GAMING ACT
FINES TOTAL £3OO. Auckland, Oct. 6. Recent visits by detectives to premises in the city resulted in the appearance in the Magistrate’s Court of four men and a woman for a breach of the Gaming Act. Fines totalling £3OO were imposed by Mr Morling. S.M., all the defendants pleading guilty. For being the occupier of premises used as a common gaming-house, William Bremner Allan and Stanley Thompson were each fined £75 and Lionel Arthur Baker £SO, while for assisting in the management of a gaming-house, Christopher Garnett Molloy was fined £IOO. On a charge of assisting in the management, Beulah Hilda Branche Curtis, married, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called within a year, the magistrate stating that if she ketp away from betting nothing more would be heard of the matter.— P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 7 October 1942, Page 4
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