GAMING HOUSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 8

GAMING HOUSES

CITY POLICE RAIDS SIX PERSONS FINED PENALTIES UP TO £IOO Six persons charged with using premises at various addresses as common gaming houses appeared before Mr. C. 11. Orr Walker, S.M., in tho Police Court yesterday as the result of raids made by detectives on December 23. All the accused pleaded guilty. Mcrvyn Walter Rae, motor mechanic, aged 25, who admitted using premises at 16 Security Buildings as a gaming house, pleaded that he had carried 011 the business because it was an interesting one. He was fined £IOO and costs. A fine of £75 and costs was imposed on Christopher Garrett Molloy, tobacconist, aged 33 (Mr. Terry), on a similar charge of using premises at 15 Karangahape Road. Counsel said that accused was unable to undertake openair work and had been drawn into bookmaking through obliging friends. Remarking that it was accused's sixth conviction for the same offence, the magistrate imposed the injiximum penalty of £IOO with costs 011 Douglas Hipkins, tobacconist, aged 46, for using premises at 11 Commerce Street as a gaming house. Accused stated that he had begun bookmaking during the depression and had not been able to leavo it since. Rooms at No. 1 Safe Deposit Buildings were used by Lordc Thomas Ernest Dixon, mechanic, aged 33 (Mr. Terry). The penalty imposed was £SO, with costs. A dairyman, Eric John Hancock, aged 24, who used his shop at 64 Wakefipld Street for betting, was fined £3O and costs. A fine of a similar amount was imposed on tho sixth accused, Henry Stuart Sissons, aged 20, who, it was stated, operated at 65 Pitt Street. All the accused were allowed seven days in which to find the money.