BOOKMAKING ADMITTED.
BETS IN RELIEF CAMP. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Pleading guilty to a charge of bookmaking at Kait's Block, near To Kuiti, last Saturday, Victor Lichfield Smith, aged 20, a plumber, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months, if called upon to do so, at the Hamilton Police Court to-day. Detective-Sergeant Thompson said that accused had been convicted for drunkenness at Te Awamutu on Saturday and betting material had been found in his possession. He had made a double chart on the Mitchelson Cup and the Flying Handicap at the Auckland races. Accused, he added, ran a double with fellow workers in the relief camp. He had no previous convictions. "In the future you had better organise sixpenny sweeps out there," commented Mr.. S. L. Paterson, S.M. ►
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 9
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