TROTTING APPEAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 479, 8 October 1928, Page 11

TROTTING APPEAL

BETTING IN MEMBERS’ STAND FULL COURT RESERVES DECISION Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. Decision was reserved by the Full Court to-day In the appeal of Harold Edward Goggin against his conviction for permitting the use of windows in the members* and stewards’ stands as auxiliary totalisator windows. Mr. A. C. Fair, K.C., on behalf of Detective-Sergeant Young, urged that Lomas’s argument was fallacious lor he had been speaking as to the Popular meaning of “totalisator,” and forgotten that what the court had to decide was the meaning of the word as defined in the Act of 1908. So far as the interpretation of the Statute was concerned, the word regained the same to-day as it did in TBBI when the original Act legalising the use of the totalisator was passed. Witnesses for the defence in the court helow had spoken as to what the public consider the word to mean to-day, but nat is no guide to what the Legislature meant in 1881. The boxes comPiamed of had none of the eharactertH original totalisator and in ne light of the Statute they could not p© considered a portion of the totalsator. An essential feature was a mechanical device for indicating the •mount laid on each horse, and incidentally the total amount laid on the face. Mr. Justice Reed remarked that he a loss to know why the police brought the prosecution, for there as no allegation of abuse against the Club. The court reserved its decision.