TWO-UP SCHOOL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 135, 30 January 1932, Page 5

TWO-UP SCHOOL

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relief workers C . t.. 4 j t WiyES CQMRLAIN AGAINST HU§BMnbs FOR " ' ; * GAMBEffNG " " EARNINGS NOT BROUGHT HOME

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WEfilNGTO^, Friday. A complaint made to the' police by wives' Of- certain relief workers, reshlted in C°nstahles ' Baker and 4®s'on visitinj'g Russell terrace' relSef work dnrifig tRfe lunch hour' on Decfember 22,'* and tRe appearance -of 23 m6n at the pofice conrt* to-day on charges of playing' twoiup. ■ • Sub-inspeetbr' Lopdell told the |fagistrate/'Mf." E. Page, "S-M-, that the police 'had recejvefi cojn'plaints from tRe wives *of relief workers that they h'a'd Been ab'le to get but little bf the rhoney thah their Ihushands had earne'd as-"' they ha'd' lost ifat two-up. Members *of ' the pblice force' went to Russell "Terrace, where they found tfie"nieh itoW'dharged 'sifting5 about in a' fehelter shbdV'When' Constable Baker reacKed the' dool4 he' s'aW 'two penhies inMhe air,' arfd hsard' One 'man5 say; "Two to one on heads." Sevenv'meh admitte'd1 that they were playifig "two-tfij 'a'nd*5 the tefiiainder said 'that they'-' wefe^looking "ofi. u*" ' Constable Baker' "skid ' that the naxn'As ahd addrb'fehes of all th'e men had"*Beeh t kkeh," 'h'd "a§ked thhm: if tfiejr Wished!'rtd sky whether ' 6^ h'ot they ■^•ere'taking 'part *'fh *the"°gaihe. The jths^ferS1* "vifere !marked, agaxh'st |the hath^s on TK^lisft '"RKe* cdhsfable also saidJ|ie ' Wd" -vd« thfs aB"h"e' Irks* of the' dpinichi tlia^' soiiie of Mhe?,meh whom'' he'knew3per'sbhally, wh¥e hot gaihBlefs. i-1"' * •'*' - •'* ' ' •' ' For' the defence, it was submitted thaf" th'e "buildrrfg in whfch Hh:e" rnieh Were aJlegBc| 'tbl hai/e plhye'd was !4ib| a public'place withiri thh'meaiShg 5of the Act. It was a|sq cohtendeil' that there* was x'no *evi"40hcel,'tM|; tWO^-hp had been'played.' ' ' ' " ' ; : The Magistrate accepted one man's plea that hV mjsuhderstbod the CdnSta|>|e's questiori, 'and 'dismis'sfed the ca'se against him. Bix others' who admitted "playing^ were cdnvicte'd an^ ordered to pay costs." *The "oth'ey T6 cases were dismissed as there" was no evidence that these men were piaying. The Magistrate held that the Building Was a pubiic place.