DUNEDIN POLICE COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 2

DUNEDIN POLICE COURT.

FEB PBBSS ASSOCIATION. Dunedin, July 4. Tho proprietor of a billiard salooD was to-day charged with keeping open after 11 p.m. The evidence showed that the proprietor and another man were sitting down having some supper. The tables were covered, and the lights over them were out. For the defence tho evidence was that the man was a a personal friend of the proprietor, who occasionally assisted in marling and generally stopped behind to help cover up the table, and sometimes had supper. Mr Widdowson, S.M., in dismissing the case, said he thought it was very much on the border line. At the Police Co.irt to-day, Georgo Spiers was charged with " place" betting at Tahuna Park, It was alleged that accused placed a kerosene tin on the road adjoining Tahnn;i Park, and from this mide bets with those inside. Mr Hunlon, for the detents, raised the legal points.that a road wa not a " place " within the meaning ol tho section; that there was no tvi douce that defendant had bet at all. and no evidence to sliow anyone resorted to the " place" for betting This, and four other cases in which the same points would be raised, was adjourned. A fishmonger at South Dunedin, who had been engaged in " tote betting" al Wingatui, pleaded guilty, and was fined £5 and 13s costs