J.P. FINED £lO
CONDUCTED BETTING SHOP SYDNEY, Nov. 20. At the Guyra Police Court., before Mr. P. Seroope, P.M., Thomas Singleton Eggleston, a well-known Guyra business man, and a justice of fhe peace, charged under section 44 of ■ the Gaming and Betting .Act (1912) with using a shop, known as Eggleston’s newsagency, for the purpose of betting, was fined £lO, with £1 Os 8d costs, in default 2.1 days’ imprisonment. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The police prosecutor, Inspector Lisle, said that Eggleston had been carrying on starting-price betting for years, but the police had failed to catch him. His books showed betting transactions on a fairly large scale. Mr. Biddulph (for Eggleston) said that the prosecution was the first of its kind in the district. A false impression had got about that the,Gaming and Betting Act did not apply in the shires, and that starting-price betting in the shires was legal. Eggleston was a justice of the peace, and a man of good repute. He asked that an order be made that the money taken by the police from Eggleston’s safe be returned. The magistrate agreed to make the order.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19199, 16 December 1936, Page 18
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190J.P. FINED £10 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19199, 16 December 1936, Page 18
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