SPORTING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 19 March 1914, Page 7

SPORTING.

THE GAMING ACT. A case of considerable importance to .the racing fraternity, and.the first of its kind in New Zealand, was heard at Nelson by Mr J. S. Evans, when Harry J). James, totalisator proprietor, was charged with a breach of section 02 of the Gaming Act in registering on the totalisator, after the

time notified for.the closing of a race, moneys received for investment. The iiiagistate held that there was no definition of what “notified” means, and that there was nothing in the Act making it obligatory on clubs to notify the time of sta/tiiig,. hut any notification by the club, either to the public or to the persons liable, and the penalties of the , section was a sufficient notification under the section. He also held that the prohibition 'was absolute, and that no-trans-action of any kind could he registered on the totalisator after the time notified. The magistrate further held that criminal intention was not necessary. Ho found that the defendant had registered on the totalisator after the time notified, and convicted and fined him 20s, hut exonerated the defendant from any moral turpitude.