GAMING PROSECUTIONS,
SEQUEL TO POLICE RAIDS.
HEAVY FIXES IMPOSED.
[Bf TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION' ]
WELLINGTON, Friday. Charges against a number of men arrested, as the result of police raids on alleged gaming-houses in Wellington were heard at the Magistrate's Court today. Gilbert H. Price, charged with being the owner and occupant of premises he used as a common gaming-house, was fined £40, or in default, two months' imprisonment.
For assisting Price to conduct a gaminghouse, John H. West was fined £20, or one month's imprisonment, and Waipuki Smith £10, or 21 days' imprisonment.
Denis F. Holland, William Andrews, William Wortley, George A. Peacock, and Thomas Harding, charged with being found without lawful excuse in a common gaming-house, were each fined 20s. Albert W. Organ, the proprietor of a bookstall, in the vestibule of the Grand Hotel, was charged with betting on licensed premises, and Was fined £25, or one month's imprisonment. The charge against Albert V. Stewart, of keeping a common gaming-house, and that against George Dyhrberg, for assisting Stewart, were partly heard. The cases will be continued to-morrow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16561, 9 June 1917, Page 6
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178GAMING PROSECUTIONS, New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16561, 9 June 1917, Page 6
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