LATE RACING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 6

LATE RACING

TAUMARUNUI MEETING

(Per Press Association.)

TAUMARUNUI, this day

Tiie first day of the Taumarunui raises is being held in showery weather, with the course in good order ami a moderate attendance.

Trial .Handicap.—4 Kanapa, 1; 4 Weatherwise, 2; 2 Chang, 3. Scratched : Abbey Dream, Huliana, The Pullett. Won by five lengths, and 2Jj lengths. Time, 1.17 1-6.

Taringumutu Handicap.—4 King Win, 1; 1 Princess Bede, 2 ; 2 Rose Lupin, 3. Scratched: Welcome Lu, Kalian. Won by a length, and a neck. Time, 1.15 4-5.

premises. The case quoted by counsel for tlie accused was distinguishable from the present case in that the persons frequenting the premises were restricted to employees of the owner of the premises. One of the principal ingredients of such a charge was that the business should be conducted with a certain amount, of generality, and in this ease there was evidence that on numerous occasions prior to the date in the information these promises had been frequented by numbers of men. The evidence unquestionably satisfied the court that both the defendants knowingly used and permitted to be- used the premises ns a common gaming house. After hearing counsel ou. the question of penalty, tlie magistrate said that even though tin; stakes were not heavy it was a serious practice to keep a, common gaming house, especially in these hard times. The Act provided a. maximum fine «if £IOO, but he would take into consideration the fact that it was the first' prosecution of the kind in Gisborne for some time. The case was not as serious as if the premises Inul been used for the purpose of bonkmaking, and the prosecutions would he treated as a warning, lie could not overlook the fact that Curtis had previously been before the court, and lie would lie fined £!.O, and May would be fined C 5. Of the 12 men charged with being found in a common gaming house, Albert Wilkin, 24, James Taylor, 30, Cornelius Patterson, Albert Victor Singe, Kopiia Rungi, and Robert Proud were each fined £2, and tlie remaining six, whose names were suppressed because publication would have a damaging effect on their business or would jeopardise their employment, were each lined £3. Mention was made of the. fact that a summons had been issued against, another man on a. charge of assisting in the keeping of a gaming house, but that the summons had not been served.