HEAVY FINES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19508, 3 January 1929, Page 8

HEAVY FINES.

BOOKMAKERS ADMIT CHARGES. AUCKLAND GAMING RAIDS. [THE FEESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, January 2. The Consolidated Fund has made a good start for the year so far as Auckland is concerned, for two bookmakers caught yesterday were this morning, at the Magistrate's Court, fined a total of £l5O. John Henry Weaver, for whom Mr Allan Moody appeared, admitted to Mr F. Iv. Hunt, S.M., yesterday, that he used his house at Carlton Gore road as a common gaming house. Chief-Detective Hammond said Weaver lived with his mother, end nearly all his business was done over the telephone. <s He is in a fair way of business," added Mr Hammond. Mr Moody said the ease was not one of a man touting about the town for bets. Weaver had been conducting an illegal business for about a year after he had been invalided ashore from a Union Company's steamer suffering with appendicitis. He cannot now go on a racecourse, bo Mr Hunt: It does not pay him so well, perhaps, to go on the course. There are three classes of bookmakers —very small, medium, and full-size. Weaver is about half-way, so he will be fined £SO. Henry Emanuel (44) was the next to be dealt with, having pleaded guilty to a charge of keeping premises in Customs street as a common gaminghouse. Mr Hammond said Emanuel was fined £IOO in October of last year, but that since then his business had not been so extensive as it was formerly. "He is qualified for twelve months.." said the Magistrate in imposing a fine of £IOO.