GAMING OFFENCE
PUBLICAN FINED £SO. By Telegraph—Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. May 10. A fine of £SO and costs was imposed on Thomas Ebenzer Robinson, the licensee of Tattersall’s Hotel, by the Magistrate, Mr E. D. Mosley, on a charge of knowingly and wilfully permitting the private bar of the hotel to be used as a common gaming house by another person, Helen Gunn, on various dates. Security for appeal was fixed at £l2/12/-, plus the amount of the fine. The Magistrate said that the accused appeared to have assisted Gunn in every possible way. “It is one thing for a hotelkeeper to discuss races and racehorses in the bar with customers, but it is quite another thing for him, knowingly to permit actual gambling, such as the investment of money and the payment of dividends, in the bar, with and by one of his servants. I am satisfied that he knew of the betting and allowed it.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 19
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156GAMING OFFENCE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 19
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