DEFIES THE COURT.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 325, 5 January 1937, Page 5

DEFIES THE COURT.

Bookmaker Charged At Auckland. Press Association—Copyright. Auckland. Jan. 4. “I am a member of the Bookmakers’ Association and proud of it. I am still going to fight, so that we may be recognised,” said Arthur George Williams, 46, tobacconist, who was charged at the Magistrate’s Court today with using premises in Pitt Street as a gaming-house. “The detectives who picked me up on Saturday were only doing thefts duty. It is the rotten legislation.!: am complaining about.” The Magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr* Walker: This is hardly the place ttr air that. The legislation has been ogthe Statute Book for many years andis still there. “Well,” said Williams, “I am not' going to squib. It some of my colleagues now on a pedestal had nOf ratted the legislation would not have been still there. I am not going to pay a fine. I am going to gaol as a protest against the legislation.” The Magistrate imposed a fine of £lOO, default to be fixed in the usual way ' A J. Williams askedr if he would be allowed time to pay. ”1 thought y’d'il did not want time, except time in £jaol,” said the Magistrate, who allowed seven days in which to pay. . ,i After shaking (hands with the two detectives who arrested him, Williams left the Court carrying betting paraphernalia.