Field v Healey - [1947] NZLR 627

Practice — Interrogatories — Objection on Ground of Incrimination — Admission on Oath sought from Opposite Party that on Specified Date he acted as Agent in paying out on Bets made by him as Agent — Such Date more than Six Months before Application for Interrogatories — Offence of carrying on Business of Bookmaker on such Date — Party sought to be Interrogated in no Danger from Summary Proceedings — Whether, if such Party still carrying on Business as Bookmaker, such Admission usable to prove System — Carrying on Business of Bookmaker Indictable Offence not within Six Months' Limitation — Whether Answer to proposed Interrogatory tending to Incrimination — Gaming Act, 1908, s 77 — Gaming Amendment Act, 1920, ss 2, 5 — Justices of the Peace Act, 1927, s 50.