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AN AUSTRALIAN BETTING DECISION. An Australian. Full Court has decided that a private letter-box at the general postolHce is not a place within the meaning of the Police Offenses Act. controlling betting. The acting chief justice said that it was said the owner of the letter-ltox had used it for the purpose of betting with people. The section seemed to indicate that what was called a "place" must be some spot in which some human being could do that which was objectionable under the act. lie thought the legislature required that a "place" should be somewhere something could be done by a human being. A letter-box was not such a place. It was an instrumentality of the business curried on, but that did not constitute it a "place." If a letter-box at the postoflice was an illegal place, then a box at the mans house into which letters were placed or the; door at which they were delivered, would he -equally a place" liable to be declared a common nuisance. He did think the; legislature intended that a letter-box should h. considered a "place" The appeal was allowed ana the conviction quashed.
