FINED £100 FOR BETTING
HAIRDRESSER CONVICTED. (Per Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., Sept. 12. When Harold Edward Hook, hairdresser, Shannon, was charged at the Police Court this morning, with having used the shop as a common gaming house, Senior-Detective Quirk informed Mr Stout S.M., that the premises were visited by the police on Saturday. No bets were taken while they were there, doubtless owing to their presence being known, but records of extensive betting Were found, showing that between January 3 and January 27, over five hundred pounds was taken. The maximum fine was asked for. Defendant denied doing the amount of business alleged. When agent for a Palmerston North firm he had done a bigger volume of business, but at present was doing little. Well, you know it is an illegal business, said the Magistrate, imposing the maximum penalty of a hundred pounds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1927, Page 5
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