“MARTYR IN CAUSE OF TURF PROGRESS”
Convicted Auckland Bookmaker
Sydney, February 6.
The “Sun” publishes an interview with Mr. T. Curran in which he states that his serving a sentence in the Auckland jail for bookmaking had attracted such nation-wide attention th,at it now seemed certain that bookmaking legislation in New Zealand would follow as a matter of course.
Really, he said, his conviction had made him a martyr in the cause of Turf progress. He h.ad goine to jail and had hated the experience. He had shared his Christmas gifts and food, ■which filled a fire-ton lorry, with the 196 inmates. Despite a petition signed by 20,000 persons and the dispatch of hundreds of telegrams to the Government. praying for clemency, he had had to serve his full term, and said he felt he had done a few days more than the term, having entered the jail on November 18 and having been released on January 19.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 114, 8 February 1937, Page 9
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