BOOKMAKER'S DEFENCE
PEOPLE WANT TO BET
MAGISTRATE FINES HIM £100
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, April 19.
The bookmaking business was on trial in the Police Court this morning when its case was valiantly put up by Arthur George' Williams, aged 43, a tobacconist, who was charged with using premises as a common gaminghouse. •
It was a service, Williams declared, required by the sporting fraternity of New Zealand. In his view 85 per cent, of the people of New Zealand/wanted betting.
Asked by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., what he had to say for himself, Williams replied: "I was only attending to a service that is required by the sporting fraternity of New Zealand." ' Mr. Hunt: Oh, but it is not a service required by the laws of New Zealand. Williams: Eighty-five per cent, of the people of New Zealand want betting. The Magistrate: I think the less said about that the bstter. Williams, who was stated to have been in court twice last year, was fined £100, in default three months' imprisonment. He was allowed seven days to pay. ' ". \ ' ' :
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1938, Page 16
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