THE GAMING ACT.
PUBLISHING “TOTE” NUMBERS. AUCKLAND PROSECUTION. Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The first prosecution under the provision of the Gaming Act prohibiting the publication of statements from which the amount of dividends on a horse race may be calculated, was heard in the Police Court to-day before Mr. Poynton, S.M. William Norton, proprietor and publisher of the weekly pa*per Sun, was charged with having published such a statement in connection with the Christmas meeting at Ellerslie. The evidence showed that defendant had placed against the names of all horses save one or two, figures from which it was contended dividends could be calculated.
The defence was that the figures were not complete or accurate, and that thus it was impossible to ascertain the amount of the dividend. The figures merely gave an idea as to how the horses were backed. Decision was reserved.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 4
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145THE GAMING ACT. Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 4
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