THE GAMING ACT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10954, 20 December 1911, Page 2

THE GAMING ACT.

(Per Phess Association.) Christchurcli, December 19. At the Supreme Court Mr Justice Denniston delivered judgment in the case Alexander Wildey (Mr Cassidy) v. Gibson (Mr Stringer), an appeal from the decision of Mr H. W. Bishop, Stipendiary Magistrate, under the Gaming Act, 1908. The appellant had been, convicted of a breach' of section 30, subsection 1 of the Act, on a charge .of having printed a document containing a notification as to betting on horse racing in New Zealand. It was proved that the . appellant had printed what was generally known as a race card, which contained certain betting information, being the names of the horses engaged in certain forthcoming races, and the odds offered against the horses. 1 It did not contain any name of any person in connection with such betting. Wildey had been fined £lO and costs. His Honor, in giving judgment, said he agreed with Mr Justice Sim in Barnett v. Bishop, in which it was decided that the section should be read as prohibiting the printing or publication of any document containing any advertisement or notification that any person, club, or association named or indicated therein was ready to make bets on any horse race; therefore, as this document did not comply with such requirements he allowed the appeal.