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BOOKMAKER FINED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association AUCKLAND, November 9. William Alfred Mackay, 39 t * bool maker, was fined £IOO to-day,- for keeping a common gaming house. 1 was his fifth offence under the-Gan ing Act, and the previous fines includ ed two of £IOO. Magistrate Hunt said that some o these offenders seemed to regard tin £IOO fines in the light of a, license fe< Accused’s counsel assured the Mag istrate that times were hard for book makers as for other 1 people, and £10( for a license was by no means cheap. The Magistrate, in ’lmposing the fine, said, “It’s his last chance. It will be three months’ next time.” REMOVAL OF POWER POLES. AUCKLAND, November 9. Judgment in the first case of the kind in New Zealand was given to-day by Justice Herdman, who held that; the Waitemata County Council had no legal right to- require the Waitemata Electric Power Board to contribute towards the cost of removing power poles from one position on a County road to another * "The Power Board had the absolute right to erect poles as it did, and if they stood in the way of the Council’s road improvement operations j it was the Council’s business to get rid of them at its own expense,” said the ■Judge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1931, Page 5
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