BETTING ADVERTISEMENTS
THE PROTECTED TQTALjESATOR.
( rimss ASSOCIATION i Auckland, last night. James Regan, proprietor of the weekly journal Saturday Night, was summoned in tho Police Court to-day for infringing the Gaming and Lotteries Act by publishing an advertisement by which persons might be induoed to seouro information in relation to a contingency such as a horse rare. Defendant, who plead d guilty, said other newspapers offended similarly, and it was cutting it fine to prosecute him because the advertisement was worded in nlinU f-ill rf/m/snl timnit.tu fur.itt
n slightly different manner from others, Ho handed to Mr Kettle, S.M., specimens of advertisements referred to, aad the Magistrate remarked that they certainly wore sim-lar to tho one forming the subject of the case. Mr Mays, for tho Crown Solicitor: All have been prosecuted, Defendant suggested that tho police wore persecuting him, but tho Magistrate replied that such a remark was unfair. Ha imposed a (100 of £2 with oosts, remarking that ho always felt a disinclination, perhaps wroDgly, to imposo heavy penalties in such oases, seeing that thl State legalised tho totalieator, and di everything to protect it against those wf ran the same class of business.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1822, 31 July 1906, Page 2
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196BETTING ADVERTISEMENTS Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1822, 31 July 1906, Page 2
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