THE GAMING LAW.
CHARGES AGAINST SEVERAL MEN. WELLINGTON February 13.
This morning a number of arrests were effected of alleged bookmakers and an assistant in an alleged common gaming house and men found without lawful excuse on such premises. The men arrested were John Laidlaw Walling, charged with keeping a shop in Willis Street as a common gaming (house; Arthur Walling, assistant in the conduct of the house; James Henry Rogers, betting in the Empire Hotel; Percy Winters, betting in the Duke of Edinburgh hotel; George William Lees ’Edgar Bert Edwards, Frank Oreaney, Bernard O’Connell, Arthur Cunningham, George Avery, and Freder ick Ivnigre,' found •without lawful excuse in a common, gaming house. When the men appeared before the Court, an application by Chief Detective Boddam for a remand till to-mor-row was granted. In the first four cases bail was allowed in £25 and one surety of £25, and in the other cases bail was fixed at £5.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1918, Page 3
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