SUBVERSIVE WORK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 8

SUBVERSIVE WORK

WARNING TO BOOKMAKERS NO AID IN WAR EFFORT [from om OWN correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday The opinion that the activities of bookmakers were directly subversive was expressed by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Hamilton Police Court today, when two men were charged with using premises as common gaming houses. All the energies of the country, lie said, should be directed to war pur- ! poses. Bookmaking diverted money which should be used for the promotion of tho war to illegitimate purposes, said Mr. Paterson, and those engaged in it would be better occupied in doing something for the benefit of the country. Mr. Paterson added that the owners of premises used as gaming houses could not he blind to what was going on. and it was time that some action was taken against them. He also suggested that the time had arrived for imposing terms of imprisonment on those conducting common gaming houses. TWO WOMEN REMANDED ONE HUNG A PROSECUTION A clerk, Lillian Church, aged 32, charged with keeping a common gaming house at premises at 274 Queen Street, Onehunga, and Hannah Elizabeth Gilmore, domestic, aged 44, charged with assisting in the management of a gaining house, appeared before justices in the Onehunga Police Court yesterday. On the application of Detective Ma hood, both were remanded to appear in the Auckland Police Court on Monday. Bail on one surety of £SO was allowed in each case.