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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 4

Three men implicated in the recent | extensive thefts from the Wellington warehouse of Sharland and Co. were sentenced by Mr. Justice Chapman. James | Henry Bray, storenian, who pleaded guilty to theft, was sentenced to twelve months' reformative treatment Edward i Hellawell, grocer, found guilty of receiving, was sentenced to two and ahalf years' imprisonment, and James Connor, on a similar charge, to two. years' imprisonment. Since the legislative abolition of the bookmaker it has become quite usual to find in the larger centres of New Zealand that a number of -working men go in for the Illicit business of -the-" booky"' at the metropolitan race meetings as a means of increasing their earnings. At the Ellerslie races on Saturday Detective Cummings and a plain-clothes constable managed to work a scheme among the crowd at the " outside" enclosure which resulted in the netting of two of these amateur bookmakers who were in competition against the legal betting machine. The imen had the risks of the business impressed upon them yesterday, when they came before Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M, and were fined £20 apiece. Tlie City Organist has been enabled to secure the services of Sigurd Lestrup for the organ recital -in the Town Hall on Saturday evening next. A Danish operatic singer, Mr. Lestrup has appeared in notable operatic roles in many European cities, and his first appearance in Auckland should attract a large audience. The organ selections will include popular works for the instrument and transcriptions of favourite compositions. At a sitting of court at Kawhia on Monday, before Messrs G. G. Jonathan and J. K. Newton, justices, a young native, Takapu Maimikn, -was charged with the theft of two pounds from the house of a fisherman, Hugh Draper. He was convicted and fined £5 and ordered to make restitution, in default one month in Kawhia gaol. The High Commissioner has cabled to the Hon. J. Allen that, according to the Colonial Office, the Prisoners of "War Help Society considers there are at the. present moment ample funds for British prisoners of war, and does not advocate opening a fund in New Zealand, yet. Best folding card tables, 36in baize tops, now 13/0 cash. —Tonson Garlick Co., Ltd.—(Ad.)