THE GAMING ACT.
SEVERE PENALTIES. GISBORNE, January 17. Cases under the Gaming Act were heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Charles Croon and Arthur Owen were charged with keeping premises in Grej street as a gaming house. Detective M'Leod stated that the men were partners, and on New Year's Day he telephoned and made a bet with Owen in the name of a local man. Both defendants pleaded Riu'lty, and the magistrate imposed a penalty of £IOO and costs in each case. Both had been previously fined for a similar offence. For frequenting the Gladstone road for the purposes of betting, Thomas Bathgate Robinson was fined £75. An information against two men for boing_ found in a common gaming-house, was withdrawn.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 26
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122THE GAMING ACT. Otago Witness, Issue 3384, 22 January 1919, Page 26
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