BETTING ON DOGS HELD TO BE LEGAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 167, 5 October 1927, Page 9

BETTING ON DOGS HELD TO BE LEGAL

MECHANICAL COURSING DECISION IN AUSTRALIA By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright SYDNEY, Tuesday. In the case concerning the legality of betting at mechanical hare coursing matches, Mr. Justice Campbell iu Chambers to-day delivered his reserved judgment. He found that there was no fundamental differences in the principal objective and method of enclosed coursing and of mechanical hare coursing. In both cases it "was a question of speed and cleverness. His Honour therefore l ound that betting on mechanical hare coursing was legal, and the rule nisi granted on September 15 was made absolute. —A. and N.Z. The case originally was heard in the Glebe Police Court. A summons was issued under the Betting and Gaming Act at the instance of Alfrec Ribert Miles, master hatter, of Webb Street, AshfieUl. against Charles Gilbert, charging the latter with having unlawfully made a bet on a greyhound race at Bpping racecourse on July 23. The magistrate ruled that hare racing is not a true coursing meeting, at which the Betting Act permits betting. 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 ord?r under which the bookmaker was convicted. The Judge granted a rule nisi for the prohibition.