ILLEGAL BETTING
FINES INCREASED IN AUCKLAND (P.A.) AUCKLAND, December 4. Fines on persons committing breaches of the Gaming Act by illegal betting have been stepped up in Auckland considerably of late. Recently a first offender was fined £6O and this morning the Magistrate, Mr J. H. Luxford, fined a first offender £lOO on a charge of using his premises as a common gaming house. Counsel for the defendant, Wallace Robert Boyd, said his client had been operating for only three months and he intended giving up the game as he found that betting did not pay. A woman, Alma Bavasto, was fined £25 for permitting Boyd to use the premises she occupied as a gaming house. Counsel said net-making was carried on at the house, which was more or less a crib for fishermen who called there. “The net seems to have caught more than fish in this instance,” commented the Magistrate.
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Southland Times, Issue 25538, 5 December 1944, Page 4
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152ILLEGAL BETTING Southland Times, Issue 25538, 5 December 1944, Page 4
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