IN THE COURTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11124, 6 February 1930, Page 2

IN THE COURTS.

RAID ON OPIUM DEN ohinesiTfined . (Press Association.) ’ HAMILTON, Feb. 5. Tlio police' raided Chinese premises in Ward Street, Hamilton, on -Saturiay night and confiscated it complete ipium outfit. -Three Chinese wero;ar-t-ested, and to-day in tlio Magis< crate’s court Yin Joo, (37, was fined C2O for being in possession of opium and £ls for smoking opium. Ya,t I fliilgi .40, and All Joe, 18, were fined 220 each for being found. on. premises wlioro opium was unlawfully smoked . .... , • ••••' BETTING WITH “BOOKIE.” FOURTEEN MEN FINED £lO EACH. (ProBS Association.) HAMILTON, Feb. 5. Arising out of, it lie-(recent police raid on the bookmaking premises of Harry -Abraham -Samuels, a' tailor, of Hamilton, who was fined £3O recently, To‘charges bf (betting with a bookmaker were preferred in the Magistrate’s Court (this morning, and fines totally £143 were imposed. Fourteen men were lined CIO each, -and one £5.

Counsel described the case as line first of the kind in Auckland pro, vim-o since the Act came into-force 10 years ago, probably flic only ones in tho Dominion, with the exception of those in •' Christchurch about- two years ago. In view of (lie heavy - penalties .on bookmakers; counsel said, most- people wore Min* aw;iro ■that they were liable to heavy lines.

The magistrate, Mr. W. Wilson, said tlm cases were not a novelty. The warning issued was already ten years old, and fixed the penaltyBecause of the enormous amount af racing in New Zealand if bookmaking was permitted and tolerated it would be possible that every niaii could waste time and money at races every day of the week.' “It is the great • economic loss- to tho country, which prosecutions of this nul-ii'} are intended to stop", lie said. * • * . AN EXTENSIVE JOKE. JOV-lUDINCr ’ SHIP'S. STEWARD :Proes Aaaooiation.i WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. A plea that they look the cur fm a prank did not help two stewards off the Taiwui, Shillibeer and Harvey. to-day. The magistrate merely told them, it- was an expensive joke sometimes to owners, and imposed fines-of £5, with tlie alternative of 14 days in gaol. Both men are to bcplaeed aboard if the. lines are- not-paid when the -ship! sails; The car, the property of. a waterside worker;; was taken from the wharves in the view of a constable, who effected. the arrest.