A FAR REACHING JUDGMENT.
STREET BETTING NOT UNLAWFUL. Received 22,12.20 a.m. Sidney, May 21. The High Court, reversing a Supreme Court decision, held that a public lane does not come within the meaning of " a place." in the Betting House Sanpressioa Act. The effect of the judgment is to declare street betting not unlawful. The Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, said probably it may be very desirable to put down that sort of betting. Very likely it is, but that is the business of the Legislature and not of courts of justice. The case was governed by Powell versus the Kempton Park Raceceurse Company, and defendant was not proved to have committed any offence against the statute.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8116, 22 May 1906, Page 3
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117A FAR REACHING JUDGMENT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8116, 22 May 1906, Page 3
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