RAID ON GAMBLING DEN
SEQUEL IN COURT. TWENTY-NINE MEN FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.! HAMILTON. September 5. As a sequel to a police raid on premises in Hamilton, 32 men faced charges undbr the Gaming Act in the Hamilton Magistrates' Court today. Police who watched the premises told of two up and dice games operated at a club, and cf a raid on the night of Friday last, when they had to smash down doors to gain admission. James Arthur Frost, occupier of the premises, and John Sherard Rawson, who was charged with assisting in conducting a gaming house, pleaded guilty and were fined £25 each. Twentyseven men of varying occupations, who wore found on the premises, were each fined £2 and costs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 8
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