CONSTABLE'S BETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 8

CONSTABLE'S BETS.

SUBURBAN GROCER FINED. A denial that he had carried on the business of a bookmaker was made by la, suburban grocer, George Ashe, who I appeared in the Police Court on summons to-day. | Constable Flynu said he went to defendant's shop and placed two halfcrown bets. When witness asked for a double, Ashe said that it was the favourite double and was full up. Later, witness and Detective Brady went to the shop when Ashe admitted that he had accepted a small number of bets from I men who worked at an adjacent factory as he wanted to oblige and retain his ' customers. Mr. T. R. Holmden, who appeared for Ashe, submitted that one or two isolated hets placed by a man for his customers did not prove that he was a bookmaker. No betting slips or gambling material : had been found at his shop. Ashe, in evidence, said lie was losing custom owing to a rival shopkeeper making a business of placing bets. He did not like betting, and was anxious to see it stopped in his district. ' Ashe was fined £2.