BOOKMAKERS FINED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 13

BOOKMAKERS FINED.

POLICE RAID IN AUCKLAND. [THE PEES 3 Special Sorvice.] AUCKLAND, January 3. On Saturday morning, as a result of a raid carried out by SeniorDetective Hammond, several men were arrested on charges under the Gaming Act. This morning at the Police Court before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M. „Henry Clifton Sallary, aged 37 and Henry' Saunders, aged 27, were each charged with keeping a common gaming house. Laurence Chapman, aged 23, was charged with assisting in the management of a common gaming house, while Alfred Martin Mathews, aged 45, George Pratt, aged 50, and Harry Young, aged 27, were each charged with being found in a common gaming house. Sallary, Saunders, and Chapman, who appeared, pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Cummings stated that Sallary had been carrying on for some time wholesale business at tote odds. Ho had been convicted on February 6th, 1923, while Saunders also carried on a big business. He had never been convicted previously, but he had been a bit lucky, added Mr Cummings. "Sallary is president of tho llookmakers' Association for Auckland province, while Young is secretary. Mathews is only a member, and Pratt went in for a five bob bet," said Mr Cummings. "Well, you have each saved yourselves £25 by pleading guilty and saving trouble," said Mr Hunt, who added that he would not send the accused to gaol. Both Sallary and Saunders were find £75, and Chapman £25. Mathews and Young were each fined £5, and Pratt £2 and costs.