“CATERS FOR DEMAND”
MAN ON GAMING ACT CHARGES.
COURT IMPOSES FINE OF £lOO.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 15.
When detectives raided a tobacconists shop on Saturday they arrested three men and seized a quantity of betting material. Yesterday Thomas Curran, Joseph Dempster Cox, and Harvey Alfred Magill appeared in the Police Court before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., Curran pleading guilty to a charge of using the premises as a common gaming house and the other two young men to assisting in the management.
“Curran and the others in this sort of business appear to cater for a large pub-
lie demand,” said counsel. “It is significant that now that a telegraph office has been opened on the racecourse some people insist on betting elsewhere. Curran has a good reputation. He is perfectly honourable, and it is interesting to know that he pays income tax. It is a
paradoxical state of affairs.” Mr. Hunt: “He has already paid £5OO in fines and has served one month’s imprisonment. Now he is going to pay another £lOO. He is fined £lOO dr three months’ imprisonment.” Cox was fined £5O and Magill £lO.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1935, Page 12
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