"JUST STARTING."
I AMATEUR BOOKMAKER. SUSTENANCE MAN FINED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday.' Arrested at the Showgrounds yester- - day, where he was taking bets from those watching the trotting meeting from; a fence at the back of tlie lt ground, Ivan John McGuire, a labourer, aged 33, was fined £10 and costs in the Magistrate's Court this morning for bookmaking. "Shortly before the fifth race at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting," 1 said Chief Detective Dunlop, McGuire was seen walking up • and down among the crowd watching the start of the event from the back of the Showgrounds. As he walked lie cried, "Who'll be on next?" When McGuire was questioned and searched he admitted he had taken five bets of from 5/ down to 2/6. McGuire told the magistrate it was the first occasion on which he had taken bets. He was "just starting off in the game," and he had only taken a few " bets. He was on sustenance and was r trving to make a few shillings. - i | Default of payment of the £10 fine 3 I and costs was fixed at one months gaol. .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 272, 16 November 1936, Page 9
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188"JUST STARTING." Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 272, 16 November 1936, Page 9
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