BOOKMAKER FINED
NAME SUPPRESSED
Pleading guilty to a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker, a man, whose name was suppressed, was fined £20 and costs by Mr.. H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Lower Hutt Court yesterday. " '
Sergeant J. W. McHolm said that the man was caught on December 28 taking bets in the Bellevue Hotel. He had about £30 in notes and between £2 and £3 in silver in his possession. The betting concerned an Auckland meeting. The defendant said he was an agent for another man. Since being caught he had resigned his position.
When an application was made for the defendant's name to be suppressed, Sergeant McHolm said that if this man carried on as a bookmaker people would know where to place their bets, but if he desisted, as he had promised, not a great deal of damage would be done.
The Magistrate suppressed the defendant's name on condition that he desisted from bookmaking. If the offence was repeated, he said, the fine would be twice as much as it would be under the usual circumstances.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 6
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