THE GAMING ACT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10507, 20 December 1911, Page 5

THE GAMING ACT

AN APPEAL ALLOWED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTOHiUEjCH, Last Night, ' At the Supreme Uourt, Mr;, Justice Deninisbo'n delivered .judgment in- tiKy case Alexander Wildey (Mr Oassidy) v. Gibson (Mr an. appeal from the decision!* of Mir H. W. Bi&h- [ op, Stipendiary Magistrate under the | Gaming Ac*, 1908. The appellant J Lad been coavicted of a breach/of Section. 30, &üb-«ecition 1 of iihie Aot,, on a charge of having piriinrted- a dooumem* conttaining a notification as to betting on. bouse, racing in *New land. It was proved that the' appellant had priiqj^ : what;w.ai» generally khOkyn a& a race .card. which cbnr j^ajMfci.': : ceomin betting information, being the names of the horses engaged in certain, forthcoming races; and the odds, offered against the horses. It did not contain any name of any person, in connection with such betting. Wmdey bad' been, fined i £lO and costs. His Honour, irn. giv- i ing judgment, said he agreed with I Mr Justice Sim iro the Bairne.tt.jft. Bdishop ease, in. which it waV decides* that thy section should be t read iwf. prohibiting the printing or. publffloa-; tion of any document containing a:ny advertisement or notification that any persbn, cilnlb, or association named or indicated therein, was ready to make bets on any horse race. Therefore as this document did not comply with such requirements' he allowed the appeal.