HEAVY FINES
INFLICTED ON BOOKMAKERS
LAW MUST NOT BE DEFIED,
(BI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Louis Curtis and William Pollock, both of Dunedin. were charged at the Magistrate's Court to-<3ay with making bets on licensed premises, and distributing cards without the name and address of the printer attached. The facts were admitted. Mr. M'Carthy, S.M., imposed fines on Curtis totalling £206, and on Pollock £216.
Mr. M'Carthy said that bookmakers, notwithstanding the gradual increase in fines, had gone on defying the law, and treated the fines as mere licenses. It was the Court's duty to see that the law was not defied with impunity, and to ascertain who was the strongest factor in the Dominion—Parliament or the bookmaker. He inflicted the maximum penalty, and issued a warning that in future cases imprisonment would follow conviction.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 133, 3 December 1919, Page 8
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136HEAVY FINES Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 133, 3 December 1919, Page 8
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