THE GAMING ACT
BOOKMAKERS HEAVILY FINED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 23.
In the Police Court to-day Sydney Eddowes was fined £IOO for using his premises as a common gaming house. The police stated that he was apparently in a big way of business, and had been before the court on two previous occasions for a breach of the Gaming Act, the last occasion in 1939. William John McCrae, who admitted a similar offence, was fined £76. The police stated that he also appeared to be in the business in a big way.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 7
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91THE GAMING ACT Otago Daily Times, Issue 25674, 24 October 1944, Page 7
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