GAMING LAW BREACHES
— ♦ TWO MEN FINED. Bj Telegmiili -Preaa Aeaooifttion. Gisborne, December 'i. . At the Magistrate's Court Kobert lioland Kidson and Francis William Ericksoii were charged before Mr. Barton, S.M., that being: occupiers of a grocery store they did keep and use sucli premises as a common gaming house. Kidnoil was further cliarged with frequenting Gladstone Road, a public place, for the purpose of betting. Tho charges wero laid as the Tesult of a police raid. Each accused was fined and ou tlio second charge Kidson was fined £1. Tho Magistrate said that it was stated by a detective that the Telegraph Office was used for betting transactions. This was well known, and the Government did nothing to seo that tho law was properly carried out. The position was Gilbertian.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19191205.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
130GAMING LAW BREACHES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in