GAMING CHARGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1939, Page 9

GAMING CHARGES

FIVE PERSONS FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) FEILDING, September 11. Fines totalling £330 were imposed by Mr R. M. Watson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Feilding, today on five persons who pleaded guilty to charges of keeping a common gaminghouse. The first was Ella Saunders, married woman, who the police said was in the business in only a small way. Bets on the Wanganui races up to the fourth race on Thursday totalled £4l 10s. A fine of £4O was imposed. A. E. Hosken was fined £lOO dnd warned by the magistrate that if he came before the Court again he would probably go to jail. Hosken was before the Court for a similar offence last December. Patrick Molloy, an employee of Hosken, was fined £6O, the magistrate remarking as Molloy was employed by Hosken the latter would probably pay the fine. J. H. Johnston was described by the police as doing business in a small way, memorising all bets. A fine of £3O was imposed. Noel Hurdle pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping a common gaminghouse at his residence. The police said he was a big bookmaker, doing nothing else. On the day of the raid he had taken £6B 2s 6d in bets up to the. fourth race at Wanganui, and while the police were there £6 5s was made in bets. He had been fined £5O in 1936. The magistrate imposed a fine of £lOO, warning Hurdle that another conviction might land him in prison.