GAMING HOUSE CHARGES
FARMER TO PAY £25 FINE BETTING AT GORDONTON [from our own .correspondent] HAMILTON, Monday A fine of £25 was imposed on James Dalbeth, aged 36, farmer, of Gordonton, in the Hamilton Police Court today on a charge of keeping premises at Gordonton as a common gaming house. Accused admitted the offence. ' Detective-Sergeant J. Thompson that accused had been betting for about a Year at Gordonton, and on Easter Monday had taken 39 bets valued at £24. The attention of the police had been drawn to his activities on account of his betting with a youth of 18, an employee of his. Dalbeth had not been before* tho Court before, and was a man of good character.
PENALTY OP £SO IMPOSED CASE AT WANGANUI [bt telegraph—press association*] WANGANUI, Monday For keeping his premises as a common gaming house on April 13, Frank Sanko was to-day fined £SO and costs by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M. James Henry Davis, for assisting in conducting tho premises, was fined £2O.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22399, 21 April 1936, Page 12
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