FINES TOTAL £835
GAMING HOUSE BREACHES SIX MEN IN COURT i (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “I am beginning to wonder whether the maximum penalty of £IOO should not be imposed on these people, even for first offences. They are deliberately breaking the law and they know it.” said 'Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day. in dealing with charges arising from police raids on six gaming houses in the city on December 23.
All six men, who were charged with being occupiers, pleaded guilty. Two were fined £3O each, one £SO, one £75 and tv/o £IOO each, a total of £835. One man for being unlawfully on gaming house premises was fined £2.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 8
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119FINES TOTAL £835 Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 8
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