HOTEL RAIDED.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20316, 26 January 1928, Page 10

HOTEL RAIDED.

BREACHES OF GAMING ACT. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 25. The detectives raided the Central Hotel. Lambton quay, this morning, and arrested three men— -Vincent Eric Reeve, motorman, aged 30 years;. Horace Haycock, barman and upholsterer, aged 28 years, and Bernard Sullivan, barman, aged 33 years. This afternoon the three men appeared in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr E. Page, S M to answer charges against the gaming laws. Reeve and Haycock pleaded guilty to carrying on the business of bookmakers, and Sullivan pleaded guilty to keeping and using the public bar of the Central Hotel as a common gaming house Reeve was fined £3O, and Haycock and Sullivan were each fined £2O. Fourteen days were allowed in which to pay the fines, in default one month’s imprisonment in each case.

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