SUBSTANTIAL FINES.
SHOUTING PERMITTED. TOTALISATOR RULES BROKEN. Press Association. DANNEVIRKE, March 14. Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., fined Harold Welch, of the Royal Oak llotel, Weber, £SO and costs', £5 13/-, in default three months' imprisonment with hard labour, for breaches of Hie anti-shouting regulations. The Magistrate held that the defendant had endeavoured to escape punishment by indiscriminate perjury and subornation of perjury. He had also been openly flaunting the regulations. in the case against George Henry Redwood, an official of the Woodville Jockey Club, charged with permitting investments to be received on the totalisator after the notified linic of the starting of races, a fine o'f £2O was imposed, or two months' hard labour, the Magistrate holding that a serious breach of the law had been proved.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 964, 14 March 1917, Page 8
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128SUBSTANTIAL FINES. Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 964, 14 March 1917, Page 8
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