BOOKMAKER FINED AT WANGANUI

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 11

BOOKMAKER FINED AT WANGANUI

£2OO PENALTY IMPOSED (New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, October 7. A bookmaker, who said he made a firm resolution to give up bookmaking but was later found in possession of bets from country clients who had not heard of his resolution, was fined £2OO in the Magistrate’s Courrt today. He was Ante Cvitonevich, also known as Tony Sweetman, who has four previous convictions for similar offence*. JColMMag- S.M.„«ai4 he would take info aeeotmt the resolution which Cvitonevich; said he had made, but he would impose a fine identical to that imposed when Cvitonevich was last before the Court two years and a half ago. AUCKLAND CONVICTION (New Zealdnd. Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 7. Said by his counsel to be in fulltime work and to have made bookmaking more a.hobby than an occupation, William James Feeney, aged 57. was fined £6O by Mr W. S. Spence, S.M., today for bookmaking. The police said when he was seen in the bar of a hotel in Auckland on Saturday afternoon Feeney admitted that he had been bookmaking in a small way for two months. No records were found on him. “Bookmaking in hotel bars is more objectionable than in other places,” said the Magistrate. “I will take into account that Feeney was only In a small way of business, but he and others must understand that this sort of thing has to stop.”