GAMING MACHINES
POLICE DENUNCIATION OF “RACKET.” FINES IMPOSED IN AUCKLAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, .July 3. “These gaming machines constitute one of the greatest rackets ever brought to this city, and we had more complaints about them than any other form of gambling or crime.” said Detective Sergeant McHugh when four men pleaded guilty in the Magistrates' Court to charges of keeping common gaming-houses. Mr McHugh asked the magistrate, Mr J. Morling, to impose the maximum penalty of £lOO. The defendants were Spencer Frank Browne, 55, tobacconist; James Alfred Sparks. 41, grocer; Patrick Henry Rice Daly, 31, confectioner; and Clarence George Henson, 38, milk-bar proprie - tor.
Mr McHugh said that as a result of complaints that young married men were gambling on fruit machines the police visited the premises on Friday and seized seven machines. Playing at one machine a youth lost £3 in half an hour. At another a man lost £7, then struck the “jackpot,” . but the machine would not function then and the defendant Browne would not pay out.
Henson, who had previously been before the Court, was fined £5O. and the others were fined £25 each.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1939, Page 2
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