Bookmaker Fined. —"It is the most difficult thing in the world to refuse them and they even say they’ll go to the police if we don’t do what they want.” said William Robert Surgenor, a grocer, who was charged before Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt yesterday with . bookmaking. Surgenor said he had been pressed by customers to take bets. He had obliged t|iem, although his original intention had been to go to the races on the day of the offence. A fine of £lOO was imposed.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 5
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