GREYHOUND RACING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 151, 16 September 1927, Page 7

GREYHOUND RACING

LEGALITY OF BETTING TEST CASE IN COURT By Cable. — Press Association.—Copyright SYDNEY, Thursday. The hearing of a case by which it was intended to test the legality of betting at mechanical hare coursing meetings was concluded at the Glebe Police Court to-day. A summons was issued under the Betting and Gaming Act at the instance of Alfred Robert Miles, master hatter, of Webb Street, Ashfield, against Charles Gilbert, charging the latter with having unlawfuly made a bet on a greyhound race at Epping racecourse on July 23. Defendant pleaded not guilty. The magistrate imposed a penalty of £2O on defendant. He ruled that mechanical hare racing is not a true coursing meeting, at which the Bettiug Act permits betting. Notice of appeal has been lodged. In Chambers subsequently the defendant applied for a statutory prohibition to restrain the magistrate and the police prosecutor from further proceeding with the magistrate's order under which the bookmaker was convicted. The Judge granted a rule nisi for the prohibition returnable on October 6. —A. and N.Z. A WIN FOR THE TREASURY LONDON, Wednesday. The British Treasury is unexpectedly receiving about £IO,OOO a week from the betting and entertainment taxes on greyhound racing. This source of revenue was not foreseen in the last Budget.—A. and N.Z.