BOOKMAKING
VIEWED AS SUBVERSION
(By .Telegraph—Press Association.)
HAMILTON, December 29
That the activities of bookmakerswere directly subversive was a view expressed by Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M. in the Magistrate's Court, Hamilton when two men were charged with
using premises as common gaminghouses All the energies of the country, said the Magistrate, should be directed to war purposes.
Bookmaking diverted money which should be used for the promotion ot the war to illegitimate purposes, and those engaged in it would be better occupied in doing something for the benefit of the country Owners of common gaming-houses could not be blind to what was going on, and it was time some • action -was taken. against them
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 156, 30 December 1940, Page 5
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