BETS OVER TELEPHONE
Bookmaker Fined £lOO (N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI, July 21. Wanganui detectives sat in a bookmaker’s home last Saturday while he took bets over the telephone. As a result, the bookmaker, George Albert Purvis, aged 43, a grocer, was fined £lOO by Mr B. S. Barry, S.M., today. Detective-Sergeant P. W. Harkess said he and Detective F. Thomson had called at Purvis’s home at 11.30 a.m. Purvis admitted them, and they noticed an office set up land betting slips on a table. The telephone rang, and a boy on the other end placed two £1 bets for his father. The detectives remained in the house until about 1.30 p.m., and the telephone rang about 30 times.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30499, 22 July 1964, Page 14
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