BOOKMAKER FINED £40.
SAID TO HAVE VISITED HOUSES
TIME TO PAY NOT ALLOWED.
• (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
1 MASTERTON, this day. I
John James Brennan, alias Storie, alias Brownlie, aged 36, who was charged in the Magistrate's Court this morning with carrying on the business of a bookmaker in Masterton and district, was fined £40 in default three months' imprisonment. Brennan, who stated that his operations were on a small scale, asked for time to pay the fine, but the magistrate refused to grant his request. Brennan, it is understood, will go to gaol. On a charge of vagrancy accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if, called on within twelve months. Brennan, it was stated by the police, went to certain houses collecting bets and also to the freezing works.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 9
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