HEAVY FINES
GAMING V fi (P+r Press Association —Copyrifhi ). \ "t ; CHRISTCHURCH, , October 50. Four men convicted of offences connected with bookmukirig were fined a-juins: totalling £IOU , by Mr Mosley ,S.M. The accused, .werecaught red i11,.,.,ded on Saturday, Avhen plain, cl°thcs . c-anstableg and detectives ; AVade : the a r *. •tests., The fine s were- ,as • 'follows; Maurice George Morcon, 68 years, described as a „t.Aph BiiV.Sil'-han, years, a butcher, £2O ’John Harris Pri'sk; 30, ,a motor driver, £2O. Hugh Herlihy, ,43, a barman,' charged wi.h 'using. a' public bar of the United •Service Hotel as ,a common gaming house, was fined £4O. ' •*’ Morton -attd Herlihy. were arrested * hi' the ’bat of the United Service Hotel, f and’the others at the whippet meetings at Bushev Park.' . > ‘- The^'Magistrate said he was surprised, that guch business should ,bq carried on in one of . the leading hotels. He felt suwMelLiCensing. Committee would have something to; ;say. about it....
A third ,m.ah, ;airested at Bushey Park, was remanded. :., •>. . .•;
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 6
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161HEAVY FINES Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 6
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