A RACING MATTER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2008, 16 March 1914, Page 6

A RACING MATTER.

(&r Wsißis'Bhi—!«»« AMoatiWon.l Nfilson, March 14. A case of consifeable itn.poftance to the racittg. fratofitityj -and the. first iif tt« kind i.n New Zealand, \vas heard by Mr. Emails, S.M., when Harry j>. James, totalisato-r -pra.prietor., w-as chiSTged with a breach of Section 32 of the Gaming Act, in rogtrferjn-g qr the-totaßsater, after tho time notified for -the -steins, of a race, n}oije.?BTreceived for iiivest-wm-it, '

The- Magistrate, held , tlwt tli.oro Was do definition of what ■•"jwti-fieA" , mcafls, and,that tbfrro was nothing ill thd Act m«ki-ng it obligatory on eliibs, to notify the ti.in& of starting, h«t that any ficatlOtt by a club, cither to the public β-r to persons liable to the penalties--of the Ecetion, was a. suffieiont. notification Under tlm section. Ho also licld that th ; G prohibitioai was absolnto, BntJ that no transaction of any kind cwiM ho registered on the totalisator after the. tin.™ uotili-esl.

the Magistrate' further held- that criminal intotation was Hot itccessaty He foimd defejidiint .b.ftd regist«Tecl on ttio totalisfttor after tn.e tinio liot'i-fiodj jjikl convicted and fined him 205., bnl exonerated him foom, any moral tii-rfii-tude.