A HARSH SENTENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 63, 14 March 1924, Page 4

A HARSH SENTENCE.

TELEGRAPHIST IMPRISONED. AND LOSES HIS POSITION. RESULT OF SMALL BETS. |tenc-' e puSt^rr&?- ---■ the I'obcc Court to-day. on a ___ ,1-legraphist, v. ho pleaded guilty to „ I charge of having laid ]on the Wanganui Cup. ; Ronald Blair aged 23, a married man | with one child, was stated by Chief. , Detective Cummings to have made bets j with his fellow workers. He was a ! telegraphist, employed in the Auckland I Post Office, and the Department re- ' garded tin- offence as serious. | '-They Men- small bets, of 1/ and"/|i" said Ihe Chief-Detective. Blair received £240 per annum, and was in poor : circumstances. As a result of his betting activities Blair had been dis-|'-Harged from the service. ! Blair asked the Bench to give him a chance. Much of what he said to the magistrate was inaudible, but he 1 stated distinctly that his wife and I small child wore in delicate health, fie had been in need of more money. [As a rule he accepted money to put on ; with someone else, but on this occasion jhe had been unable to get it on, and , had taken the bet himself. I The Bench decided it Mas of no use I inflicting a line. Blair would be I sentenced to seven days in Mt. Eden.