GAMING HOUSE
RAIDED IN WELLINGTON 26 MEN FINED £3 EACH. KEEPER GIVEN MONTH IN GAOL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WELLINGTON, This Day. Twenty-six .men who were found gambling in premises in Featherston 'Street when the police made a raid at eleven o’clock last night, were each fined £3 by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., and Elisha Miles, a metal worker, aged 35, who admitted keeping a common gaming house, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment. Miles was stated to have been carrying on gaming houses in various places in Wellington for the last twelve months and to have been warned. Counsel said the gambling was not in a big way. It was only silver betting by working men who went for relaxation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1943, Page 4
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