GAMING CHARGES,
CROWD OUTSIDE RAOECOURSE. "CROWN AND ANCHOR” PLAYED (By Telegram*.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday. When two more men. were fined to-day for playing ‘‘crown and anchor” in Matipo Street on Tuesday between the races at the Metropolitan trots, a detective said that in addition to ordinary people congregating in the street and watching the races over a fence at the back of the racecourse there were bookmakers, speelers, and persons debarred by the statute from admission to the course. There would be approximately 400 people by the fence. Witness had been there five minutes when he was “spotted” by a bookmaker, the recognition being mutual, and the crowd broke up immediately. The Magistrate, Mr. Mosley, fined one man £lO and the other £5. Both had previous convictions.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19100, 10 November 1933, Page 7
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