TWO BOOKMAKERS FINED

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 13

TWO BOOKMAKERS FINED

PENALTIES TOTAL £l5O. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 2. The Consolidated Fund has made a good start for the year as far as Auckland is concerned, for two bookmakers caught yesterday were this morning in the Magistrate’s Court fined a total amount of £l5O. John Henry Weaver, for whom Mr. A. Moody appeared, admitted to Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.J that he used his house at Carlton Gore Ttoad as a common gaming house yesterday. Chief-Detective Hammond said Weaver lived with his mother and nearly all his business was done over the telephone. “He is in a fair way of business,” added Mr. Hammond. Mr. Moody said the case was not one of a man touting about town for bets. “Weaver has been conducting an illegal business for about a year after he was invalided ashore from a Union Company's steamer suffering with appendicitis. He cannot now go on a racecourse, so—” Mr. Hunt: It does not pay him so well, perhaps, to go on a course. There are three classes of bookmakers, the very small, the medium and the full size. Weaver is about half way, so he will be fined £5O. Henry Emanuel, aged 44, was the next to be dealt with, having pleaded guilty to the charge of keeping premises in Customs Street as a common gaming house. Mr. Hammond said Emanuel was fined £lOO in October of last year, but that since then his business had not been so extensive as it was formerly.

“He’s qualified for twelve months,” said the Magistrate, in imposing a fine of £lOO.