DIVIDENDS ON RACES
AN AUCKLAND PROSECUTION,
By Telegraph—Press Association. _ Auckland, February 25 The first prosecution under the provision of the Gaming Act prohibiting the publication of statements from which the amount of dividends on a horse race may be calculated, was heard in tho Police Court to-day_J?efore Mr. Poynton, when William Morton, proprietor and publisher of the weekly paper “Sun.” was charged willh having published such a statement in connection with the Christmas Meeting at Ellerslie.
Evidence, showed that tne defendant placed against the mines or all horses, save one or two, figures from which it was contended dividends could be calculated.
The defence was that the figures were not complete or accurate, and I nut thus it was impossible to ascertain thor,mount of dividend. The figures merely gave an idea as to how the horses were backed. Decision was reserved.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 6
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141DIVIDENDS ON RACES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 6
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