£20 FOR BOOKMAKING
FINE AT CHRISTCHURCH
BETTING AMONGST RELIEF WORKERS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., sharply commented this morning during the hearing of a bookmaking case on the prevalence of betting among relief workers. Thomas Henry Owens, aged 35 years, a motor-driver, was flnecj £20 and costs for carrying on business as a bookmaker. Mr. Mosley said that from one's experience there was a good deal of illicit betting among the various bodies of unemployed workers. "Considering that everyone is taxed to find the money . —and we all regret the necessity," he added, "it seems a bit rough on the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away the money deliberately on bookmakers. It is worse than that; it is a deliberate fraud on the community. Several of these bookmakers are working ostensibly in the midst of these fellows. That, however, cannpt influence me in this case. This man is a bookmaker in a small way."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1933, Page 12
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