BOOKMAKERS GO UNDERGROUND
Effect Of Prison Sentences fNZ. Press Association— Copyright) _ . WELLINGTON, July 2. Bookmakers must continue to be pursued with the utmost vigour, says the Commissioner of Police (Mr W. S. Brown) m his annual report to Parliament, tabled today. In 1958, 22 suspected bookmakers were • prosecuted, six gaoled, 11 fined and five cases dismissed. The previous year 48 were prosecuted, five gaoled and 41 fined.
The reduction in prosecutions has continued since 1953 when 200 were prosecuted. "The decrease starts from the 1953 legislation which makes it mandatory that second offenders be gaoled: many of the ‘big business’ operators who saw no indignity in a periodical fine were not willing to face gaol sentences,” says the report. "The reduction in prosecutions is not, however, a true index to the lesser number of bookmakers
operating. Those who still operate have been driven .underground, constantly changing their places of operation, thus becoming more difficult to detect.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28937, 3 July 1959, Page 3
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