DUNEDIN GAMING HOUSE.
run by women. SALUTARY FINES IMPOSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Wednesday. In the Police Court Jane Mary Gregg (65) was charged with permitting premises to be used as a gaming house by another person, and Mary Frances Lord (4i) was charged with using the premises as a gaming house. Detective Hall said that Mrs Lord was the wife of a well-known bookmaker, and accused ‘had been known to be acting as her husband's agent. For nine months she had been using Mrs Gregg’s telephone and dining rooms on race days. There was an alarm bell from the front of the house lo the dining room near the telephone. On the second day of the Wellington races detectives executing a search warrant found the place locked. Pushing up the dining-room window' they saw Mrs Lord at the table by the telephone. The detectives found 36 betting slips totalling £29.
The magistrate said probably the police surmise was correct that Mrs Lord haul been used as a camouflage by her husband for betting.
Mrs Lord was fined £SO and Mrs Gregg £lO.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 7
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183DUNEDIN GAMING HOUSE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20246, 15 July 1937, Page 7
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