MAGISTRATE'S WARNING.
CONVICTED OF BOOKMAKING. (Prom Our Correspondent.) PALMERSTOX NORTH, Tuesday. A freezing works employee, A. R. MeKinnon, convicted on a charge of bookmaking, was warned by Mr. R. M. Wateon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Feilding to-day when he was fined £20. "I want him to remember that although he ie fined £20 on this occassion, if he does not give up bookmaking he will find himself in a very difficult position," said the magistrate. "The Supreme Court has laid it down that magistrates should impose imprisonment for this class of offence and I aek him to remember that a magistrate has discretion, notwithstanding the higher Court's direction, but I wish to warn him that if he docs not give up the practice he will find himself in serious trouble."
The police stated that accused had been caught in a hotel with a doubles chart in his possession. According to entries in a book he had taken about 120 bets of one shilling. He had been one of a sustenance gang of 130 men.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 16
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