THE RAID ON BETTING HOUSES.
R.W.Patterson fined £25, (By Telegraph.-Press Association^ Wellington, Tuesday. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr Martin, 8.M., hVd' R. W. Patterson ££s and costs, or in default six months imprisonment, on the charge of keeping a gambling house. The Magistrate staled that despite the fact that the defendant hid a number of investments on Eossnfeldt in the totalisator, at Auckland, on Boxing Day, ha could not regard Mb action in allowing a client to take I n chance on Hosonfeldt, niter the telfgrsp'u ofice nloied, as a transaction between principal and ~ag2nf f but it was directly a case of laying totalisator odda. Defendant admitted this was not an insolated transaction, hut was in the ordinary conrse of the business pursued by him on holidays, The magistrate further pointed out that defendant was liable to a fine of £IOO, or six months'imprisonment without the option of a 6ne,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 9 January 1894, Page 3
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152THE RAID ON BETTING HOUSES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 9 January 1894, Page 3
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