FINES IMPOSED
Pin Ball Machines In Milk Bar PA AUCKLAND, Oct. 15 The defendants were, in the words of the late Chief Justice “deliberately exploiting for their own profit the gambling instincts of children and young people.” Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M. said this in a reserved decision in the police court today in convicting Ruth Gwendoline Brighouse and John Hanry Gordon. Brighouse, the proprietress of an Avondale milk bar was charged with using the premises as a common gaming house, while Gordon, an electrican, and owner of a pin ball machine, was charged with aiding and abetting. The magistrate ruled out the defence counsel’s submission that the game played on the machine involved skill as well as chance. He fined each defendant £lO and ordered the forfeiture of the machine.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27521, 16 October 1950, Page 7
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