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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

PREMISES TO LET.

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE

FLATS.

NEW Cement Concrete. European Style HOUSES; Nos. 23 and. 23, HO MUN TIN STREET, KOWLOON. Each Flat 81 Feet Wide, 120 Fest Long Facing East Rant Moderate,- Apply to COMPRADORE MACKINNON, MACKINTI & Co. PHONE No. 21881.

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FOR CAR HIRE

LET-PRINCE EDWARD

TROAD, FORLOOR, Boomed

FLAT with All Modern Conveniannon and Garage-Apply to: ORBDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT. 4th floor, FRANCH BANK. BUILDING. [196

Tant Sar Forry in 10. LET-in Kowloon, immediate Cool and Quiet Locality. Furnished and Unfurnished European FLATS with all Modern Accommodation and Flush, Mo-

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Tstored FLAT-27, 10 Lot-3.Ronmed FLATS, No. 2,

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Dancing

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Furniture

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S04, NATHAN ROAD); KOWLOON. Apply tos CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREMY. ORIENT, FRITOR BANK BUILDING, STA FLOOR.

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Communicate by Writing to J. NOBRON, 86, NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

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TO LET From 187 AUGUST 1931. A Grade Ladits and Gentlemen's

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To LET-GODOWN. HENNEMY

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FOR RETIREMENT OF LEAVE Or I KOLIE Charmas-Pacino Dys. Borra 1870 HOURS OF SUNSHINE Szeress for past 10 KERTA, 1915 Resort is much favoured by Betired ANGLO-INDIAN and COLONIALS Golf, Hunting, „Pleasant Society, Good Shops, Pier, Parillon and Daily Orchestra, Concerts, ste

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BRITAIN'S BETTING

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trieving their losses. There was not a prison or a house of cor rection in London which did not every day furnish abundant and conclusivo testimony of the vash number of youths who were led into crime by the temptation of these establishments, of which there were from 100 to 150 in the Metropolis alone, while there was a considerable number in the large towns of the provinces. He believed the Bill would have the effect of suppressing most of them, or, at all events of preventing the spread of an evil which, was admitted on all hands” *** The Bill was passed and received the Royal assent on August 20, 1953, Its terms are comprehensive, andj aa, bookmakers thought, Bexible.

By sections 1, 2, and 3, no house, office, room or other place shall be opened, kept of itsel

or

"(1) for the purpose of, the owner using the same, or any perz son precured or" employed by or acting for or on behalf of, such owner, occupier or keeper or per son using the same or of any person having the care and man agement or in any way conduct ing the business thereof, betting with persons resorting theretor or (2) for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner, etc., as consideration for any pro- miso or agreement (expressed or implied) to any thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relat ing to any horse race or other race, fight, game, sport, or exer cise,"

There began 'n series of attempt ed evasione characterised by clever ingenuity and inventiveness.

Was a patch of green under the trees in Hyde Park a pláca I-Dogi gette Catteras (1803);

"Sevon Judges on appeal were animously of opinion that the case did not fall within the Statute, bus each Judge disagreed as to the grounds upon which the appeal should be allowed.

And to determine what is a place the famous case. Powell. Kemp ton Park Race Course Company went to the House of Lords, and the judgment was not unanimou9.

Eight Law Lords cannot be ups animous on what is a place!

And yet the law is clear enough The Preamble to the Statute in dicates in the most definite way what the Legislature aimed atɛ And incidantally it might be worth while keeping in mind this pream ble when considering the absurdities.

of the low:

Goberno postane

Whereas The preamble says a kind of gaming has of lato sprung up tending to the jujury and de moralisation of improvident personë by the opening of places, called betting houses or offices and the re ceiving of money in advance hy the owners or occupiers, of such houses or offices, etc.

So it cannot be said that the Act of 1833 made betting upon horse racing or other event per se illegal.

AB Chitty LJ. puts it: "It was awful for a man to be habitually and systematically and to carry on

a business of hatting, whether on credit or by way of deposit; there was no difference in law between

Exceptional Education on facilities, ¦ ¦ making a single bet or being a pro-

Illustrated Guide and Full Informativa

Free from TOWN CLERK, No. 10" fessional, bookmaker."

Monioural Ornicas, WORTHING,

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Every Bed-room hot and cold running water; gas fire,

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INCLUSIVE: Weekly terms frois Signs. single, õigus, donbla, Daily fromí 154.60; Bitartrom "DAILY PRESS? ENGEL

The law as to betting was not changed by the of 1853 except only by the special prohibitions contained in the Statute.

The thing against which the en actment iscrolled, is any place used for the purpose indicated. There must be a business conducted; there must be an owner, occupier;

manager or keeper

to bet with persons whof resort

his "place."