HARD LABOUR
TERMS FOR BOOKMAKERS
TWO GET THREE MONTHS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ; . . • NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Three bookmakers were today 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 case 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 £10 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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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 135, 10 June 1933, Page 14
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168HARD LABOUR Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 135, 10 June 1933, Page 14
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