CARD DRIVES.
FURTHER PROSECUTIONS,
CHRISTCHURCH, March 15,
“ The public has now wakened up to the fact that it has been committing a perfect debauch of illegality. I have gone very carefully into it, and it seems to me that the University tournament where trophies axe competed for would come under the Act,” said Mr W. F. Tracy in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when six men who had organised card drives appeared before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., charged with keeping common gaming houses. Mr F. D. Sargent said that the Act was meant to be against betting proper, and the sooner it was altered the better. “It makes an innooent game into a crime, said Mr Sargent. The Magistrate: That is the position, Mr Sargent: I heartily agree with you. Five of the defendants were convicted and discharged and the case against the sixth was dismissed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 71
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147CARD DRIVES. Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 71
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