COMMON GAMING HOUSE.
BOOKMAKER FINED £SO
OPERATIONS AT WHANGAREI
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COBKESPONbENt.] WHANGAREI. Monday.
A charge of keeping a common gaming house in Ritz Buildings, Whangarei, was preferred against Ernest Alfred Lacey in the Whangarei' Magistrate's Court to-day. Accused pleaded guilty and was fined £SO and 10s costs.
Constable Holt and Detective Robertson gave evidence as to raiding the premises last Saturday. The day-book produced showed that bets amounting to £283 had been accepted on the Franklin races, and £l3O on the Egmont meeting. For the accused Mr. Grimmer submitted that his client was carrying on a finance busiuess and had been doing a certain amount of bookmaking, but that lie was not carrying on in the large scale that city bookmakers were. Dorothy White was charged with assisting in carrying on a common gaming house with Lacey. She pleaded guilty and was fined £lO and costs 10s.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20254, 14 May 1929, Page 11
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