GAMING HOUSE CHARGES
PROPRIETOR FINED £SO (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 7. As a sequel to a i raid by detectives on premises in the city on Christmas Eve, James Ernest, Boreham, aged 40, was to-day fined . £SO by Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., for using his premises as a common gaming house. Of the 26 other men found .on the premises, all of whom, it was stated, would be charged with being found in a common gaming house, four appeared and were fined £3 each.
It was stated by the police that complants had been received, mostly by letter, from wives whose husbands played at this gaming house.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 6
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