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Taranaki Bookmakers SEQUEL TO POLICE RAIDS By Telegraph.—Press Association. New Plymouth, June 11. Three bookmakers were on Saturday sentenced to terms of hard labour by his Honour Mr. Justice Reed. The sentences are the sequel of police raids in New Plymouth and Stratford recently. William Henry Lash, of Stratford, and Robert Mascall, of New Plymouth, were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour and ordered to pay £25 costs, in default another month. Sydney Roy Lovell, of New Plymouth, in whose ease the jury disagreed but who changed his plea to guilty on one count, was sentenced to two months’ hard labour, and ordered to pay costs £25, in default another month. Frederick Charles Hawke, of New Plymouth, who was recommended to leniency by the jury, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years, on condition that he paid £lO costs within a month, and also took out a prohibition order against himself and abstained from laying odds or backing horses.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 11
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