£loo FINE IMPOSED.
Tobacconist Kept Common Gaming House. SECOND MAN TO PAY £SO. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, August 11. William Thomas Osmand, a tobacconist, aged twenty-nine, was fined £IOO for using premises at 164, Hobson Street, as a common gaming house. John Henry Weaver, aged thirty-one, was fined £SO for a similar offence in relation to premises at 23, Seafield Road.
The Magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt, said to Osmand: “You read, of course, the Chief Justice’s remarks the other day?” Osmand: I did. Mr Hunt: Well, the Chief Justice says magistrates are not doing their duty if they don’t send bookmakers to gaol. However, you are charged with keeping a gaming house, not bookmaking. With three convictions against you now you must realise you must give this game up.
Weaver had one other conviction in 1929.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 190, 12 August 1931, Page 4
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