Bookmaking In Barber’s Shop
Pleading guilty to a charge of using his premises, a hairdressing saloon in the Strand, Whakatane, as a common gaming house Joseph Plamus was fined £75, costs 10/- by Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Whakatane Magistrate’s Court yesterday. When the police visited Plamus’s saloon on October 28 last year, he was found taking bets over a phone and had double charts and race cards on a table, said Constable R. F. Julian. When interviewed he admitted using the place for bookmaking purposes.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 59, 2 March 1949, Page 5
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