THREE WOMEN FINED.
LAYING TOTALISATOR ODDS. (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 22. Three women in the Magistrate's Court to-day admitted laying totalisator odds on Auckland racecourses. Gladys Florence Mackrell, who was also charged with trespassing on the Ellerslie course on January 1, ,was sentenced by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., to 14 days’ imprisonment, and told that she had been twice convictejl of bookmaking and three times of trespassing on a course.
Agnes Thurlow, an elderly woman, was fined £lO for laying totalisator odds, and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years for trespassing on a trotting course. The Magistrate said that only her age saved her from gaol.
A first offender, Eva Loftus, was fined £2 for laying totalisator odds at Ellerslie on Boxing Day.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 88, 23 January 1943, Page 6
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