Our Illustrations.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VIII, Issue 384, 2 December 1897, Page 11

Our Illustrations.

From Flemington we produce a snap-shot of the finish of the Melbourne Cup, won by Mr W. Forrester’s Gaulus, with The Grafter second and that brilliant three-year-old Aurum getting home third under the crushing impost of Bst 61b. Photos, are also given of Gaulus and King of the Downs, who won the hurdles at the Otaki meeting. A picture of those record-breakers, Creamer and Wilson, engaged in a walk in the Domain, will be of interest to athletes at this time when their names are almost household words. Throwing the hammer in the Domain is illustrated, and a group of competing cyclists at the Hawera. Club’s sports is represented.

and unmistakable language, and the severity of the penalties imposed by the Act show that if it was considered necessary to suppress, as far as possible, the vice of gambling, persons convicted under section 4 of that Act are liable to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding £2O, or to both imprisonment and a fine. I have considered it my duty in those cases to inflict both fine and imprisonment, the latter without hard labour. The repeated infliction of heavy fines for these offences has been without effect. The profits derived from these illegal and nefarious practices must be very large. It pays to pay a fine, because the only result of punishment by fine is a constantly increasing crop of cases after every race meeting. When this is the case, if the law is not to become a dead letter, other punishment must be resorted to. That punishment is provided by the Act. I do not think it can be urged that because the totalisator had been sanctioned by the Legislature, those persons who ignore the laws which have been enacted to check other forms of gambling under exceptionally severe penalties should be held harmless. The practices must be held in check or the result will be very serious to community.”