THE GAMING AND LOTTERIES ACT.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2685, 15 November 1882, Page 3

THE GAMING AND LOTTERIES ACT.

[press association telegram.]

DUNEDIN, November 14. To-day at the Police Court, Bobert Pirie, hairdresser. Princess street, was charged with keeping a common gaming house, and in the ordinary phrase runnings, totalisator on the Melbourne Cup, He was fined £25, or one month’s imprisonment. Leo Tozzie and J. H. Walters were then charged, first with gaming by means of a totalisator in a public place, namely, a shop in George street. The information against Tozzie was dismissed, on the ground that he was not connected with the manipulation of the machine, and in Walters’ case the point was reserved whether the shop was a public place within the meaning of the Act. The same defendants were then charged with receiving money for investment in the totalisator. Tozzie was discharged, but Walters was fined £ls, or one month. A witness in Pirie’s case was an investor who had received £122 as dividend on Assyrian. In giving judgment to-day the Eesident Magistrate drew attention to the following points ; “ Before I commence passing sentence I would mention that it is competent for the Court, on proof of a case of this sort, without inflicting a money penalty, to send a person to gaol for three months’ with hard labor. I would also point out that under section. 15 any person can sue the party receiving the money from him in a Court of competent jurisdiction, so that if a person chooses to receive £BOO, and to pay away the money in prizes, he can afterwards be sued by those persons who got no prizes, and they can get their money back again.”