ALLEGED “TWO-UP” SCHOOL AT SHANNON
Eleven residents of the Shannon district were charged in the’Magistrate’s Court, Palmer,ston North, yesterday, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., with taking part in a gaum of two-up in the yard of the Albion Hotel on the afternoon of Saturday, March 26th,.within view of a public place, in contravention of the Gaming Act, 1908. Defendants pleaded not guilty. Only four of them, however, put in an appearance at Court. Constable McGregor, stationed at Shannon, deposed' that he watched a game of two-up in progress in the yard of the Albion Hotel, Shannon, on the Saturday afternoon mentioned, for about ten minutes. During tlvat. time three of the defendants had the kip, and another was acting as ring-keeper. Money was passed between all the men, and all were apparently taking an active part in the game. When witness was coming on the scene they all fled. Witness arrested Hyland, the. only one of the party he did not know by sight, who remarked, “You’ve caught me right in the act. I am well caught. I will pay the line whatever it is, but don’t make it too hot. If you let the thing drop I will never play again, never.” The yard in which the men were playing was in view of Plimmer Terrace. There was a six-foot ‘board fence, over which passers-by in a vehicle could sec into the yard, or a view could he obtained by anyone looking through the interstices between the boards. Witness had seen other schools playing in the same place from the street.
Mr Cooper admitted the facts, hut contended that the yard of the hotel was not a public place, nor in view of persons in a public place. No evidence had been produced to prove that people had seen the game in progress from a public place. Detective-Sergeant Quirke, who prosecuted, submitted that the hotel yard was a public place under the meaning of the Act, and quoted authorities in support of his conlent ion.
The Magistrate reserved his decision to go into tiiis point.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2289, 14 June 1921, Page 3
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347ALLEGED “TWO-UP” SCHOOL AT SHANNON Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2289, 14 June 1921, Page 3
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