TIME PAYMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 10, 12 January 1934, Page 8

TIME PAYMENT.

FINE FOR BOOKMAKING OFFENCE ON RACECOURSE. YOUNG MAN TO PAY £25. " "You can pay your fine at the rate of £1 10/ per week. The longer you have to pay, the longer you will remember what you were fined for," Mr Wy vera Wilson, S.M., told Zan Jamieson Foley, a 3'oung billiard marker, fined £25 in the Police Court this morning for carrying on the business of a bookmaker at Ellerslie on January 2. Foley admitted the offence. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said that as the result of complaints received by the police, he kept defendant under observation on "the hill" at Ellerslie racecourse on January 2. Foley was sitting on a seat, almost in front of the totalisator. Before each race a number of persons approached Foley and handed him money, and after the races a number would visit Foley, who would hand them something. He accosted Foley, who frankly admitted taking bets* He said he had only been betting in a small way on two races. Foley had never been in any trouble previously. Foley was fined £25, or one month's imprisonment.