BOOKMAKERS FINED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 6

BOOKMAKERS FINED.

SIX MEN AND A WOMAN.

PALMERSTON NORTH CASES. (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., Tuesday. Breaches of the Gaming Act were admitted by six men and one woman who appeared before the Magistrate s Court to-day. Dario La Chetto Giorgi and Harry M. Essex were charged with carrying oil the business of bookmaking, and Ada Beatrice Giorgi was charged with assisting them. Detective-Sergeant Meiklejolin said Giorgi and Essex had pooled their businesses, 'in addition buying out in July the business of a third man. As a result they conducted one of the largest bookmaking establishments in the city. They had five telephones and up to 4 p.nj. on November 23 business for the day amounted to £742. On the first day of the Wellington meeting they took £1633. For the first day of the New Zealand Cup meeting their takings were £2384. Giorgi and Essex were fined £150 and Mrs. Giorgi £25. Jack Yickerstaff, proprietor of a billiard saloon, was fined £100 for 'bookmaking. The other three accused were John Francis Hickey, George Herbert Manuel and Henry Barnett Scott, all barmen. The first was fined £20 for having carried on bookmaking for quite a long time, and the other two £15 each.

Mr. Meiklejohn intimated that it might be necessary to bring hotel licensees before the Court also if it was found they allowed betting to be carried on on their premises.