BOOKIES ACTIVE.
AMONG RELIEF MEN.
"MONEY THROWN AWAY."
PREVALENCE OP BETTING.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., sharply commented this morning, during the hearing of a bookmaking case, on the prevalence of betting among relief workers. A motor driver, Thomas Henry Owens, aged 35, was fined £20 and costs for carrying on the business of a bookmaker. Mr. Mosley said that there was a good deal of illicit betting among various bodies of unemployed workers. Considering that everyone was taxed to find the money, and all regretted the necessity, it seemed unfair to the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away their money deliberately on bookmakers. It was worse than that. It was a deliberate fraud on the community. Some bookmakers were working ostensibly in the midst of the unemployed, but that could not influence the Court in this case. The accused, said Mr. Mosley, was a bookmaker in a small way.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 2 November 1933, Page 9
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