TOTALISATOR INVESTMENTS.
ALLEGED ILLEGAL PRACTICE. CHRISTCHURCH, May 2. The practice of the racing and trotting clubs of the Dominion of having receiving rooms for totalisator investments in the stewards’ and members’ stands is being tested at law, and is the basis of charges under the Gaming Act which were brought in the Magistrate’s Court to-day against a prominent official of the Metropolitan Trotting Club, Harold E. Goggin, acting secretary, and William Hill Macdougall, totalisator proprietor. Macdougall was charged as an agent and Goggin as a servant of the club. The charge against each was that on March 11 he did unlawfully permit to be received an investment on the totalisator elsewhere than at the totalisator itself. Mr Brown, who appeared for the Crown Prosecutor, asked that the case be adjourned sine die. Mr Tracy, who represented the defendants, agreed to this course being taken.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3869, 8 May 1928, Page 71
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