AN ALLEGED BOOKMAKER.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1924, Page 6

AN ALLEGED BOOKMAKER.

DEFINITION OF PUBLISHING. BENCH RESERVES DECISION. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Whether the showing of a double chart to one person is publishing as defined in the Gaming Act was a point upon which Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., reserved his decision to-day in the charge against George Alfred Curtis of publishing a double chart - on October 13. The evidence showed that a man visited an hotel and asked the accused if he had a double. Curtis produced one on two trots at Auckland. The man booked a double, which won. When witness subsequently asked for the money, Curtis said he did not have it then and would pay next day. Witness said he wanted it, whereupon the accused struck him on the nose. They had a fight and witness was arrested, being convicted and discharged next day. Counsel for the defence submitted that there was no evidence, other than that of one witness, that the accused had a double chart, and in any eftse to exhibit a document to one person was not publishing. The chief detective quoted an authority to show it had been held that where a draft chart had been handed to a printer, it was publication to the printer.