INTERESTING PROSECUTION

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8682, 16 March 1914, Page 6

INTERESTING PROSECUTION

TRANSACTIONS ON THE TOTALISATOR. Press Association. NELSON. March 14. A case of considerable importance to the racing fraternity, and the first of the kind in New Zealand, was hear a oy Mr Evans, S.M., when Harry D. James, totahsator proprietor, was charged with a breach of section 32 Oi she Gaming Act. in registering on the sotalisator, after the time notified for the closing of a race, moneys received for investment. The magistrate held that there was no definition of what “notified” means, and that there was nothing in the Act making it obligatory on clubs to notify the time of starting, hut that any notification bv a club, either to

the. public and to persons liable to the penalties of the section, was a sufficient notification under the section. He also held that tho prohibition was absolute, and that no transaction of any kind could be- registered on the totalisator after tho time notified. The magistrate further held that criminal intention was not necessary. He found defendant had registered on the totalisator after the time notified, and convicted and fined defendant 20s, but exonerated him from any moral turpitude.