BETTING ALLOWED
HOTEL-KEEPER HEAVILY FINED (Per United Press Association? CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. A fine of £SO and costs was imposed on Thomas Ebenezer Robinson, licensee of Tattersali's Hotel, by the magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) on a charge of knowingly and wilfully permitting the private bar of the hotel to be used as a common gaming house by another person, Helen Gunn, on various dates. Security for appeal was fixed at £l2 12s, plus the amount of the fine. The magistrate said the accused appeared to have assisted Gunn in every i possible way. "It is one thing for an j hotelkeeper to discuss races and race- i horses in the bar with customers," he added, " but it is quite another thing for Eim knowingly to permit actual gambling, such as the investment of money and the payment of dividends in the bar with and bv opn of his servants. I am satisfied , that he knew of the betting, and allowed it." I
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22568, 11 May 1935, Page 2
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