FINED £50 FOR BOOKMAKING
Dissatisfied Better’s Complaint (New Zealand Press Association) HASTINGS, September 15. Frank Anthony Paul, aged 32, an agricultural contractor, of Poukawa, was fined £5O, with costs £lO 10s, when he appeared in the Hastings Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of bookmaking. Detective-Sergeant A. P. Jesson said that a complaint had been laid by a m?n named Cornwall, who said that he placed bets of £lO on two horses with Paul at the Hastings Hotel. The horses had won, and he asked Paul for £44 15s dividends due to him. Paul refused to pay, as he said he was only acting as agent for a bookmaker, and the race was over by the time he had telephoned the bookmaker to place the bets. Cornwall threatened to go to the police, and Paul paid him £4O.
“I am certain that Paul is working for a bookmaker and doesn’t actually hold any of the money himself,” said DetectiveSergeant Jesson. “He says he gets Is in the pound as commission.
Paul pleaded guilty to the charge.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29001, 16 September 1959, Page 22
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