COMMON GAMING HOUSE.
o — CHARGES AT TE AROHA. HEAVY FINES IMPOSED.' ' At the Te Aroha Magistrate’s Court on Friday, before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., David Jackson was charged with having been, between August 3 and August 14, owner and occupier of certain premises known as, Do,main Billiard Parlors, which premises were kept open or used as a common gaming house and were commotaly known and believed to be such. Robert Buddicumb, Harold Rundle, a.nd. Alfred Loundes- were charged with assisting in the management. -Phil. Manning, Mana Tama and Aubrey Delaney were charged with being found oil premisies used as a common gaming house.
Senior-Sergeant Mac Lean conducted the prosecution. The case occupied the whole day.
. The Magistrate, in summing up, stated that Buddicumb was the master mind. There was no doubt Rundle was assisting in the management, and that Loundes was an obligist. As regarded David Jackson, it could only be inferred that betting wa',s allowed on the premises-.
David Jackson was acquitted with costs-; Robert Buddicumb was fined the maximum penalty, £lOO and cqsts; Harold Rundle, £5O ; Alfred Loundes, £5 'and costs. Aubrey Delan'ey was fined £2 and costs for being found on the premises and his explanation was •unsiatisfaictoTy.'
Phil. Manning and Mana Tama were dismissed, as there was no Evidence to show defendants were bn the premises for the purpose of gambling.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5020, 30 August 1926, Page 2
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226COMMON GAMING HOUSE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 5020, 30 August 1926, Page 2
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