BOOKMAKERS IMPRISONED
TARANAKI CONVICTIONS. [PE3 PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH. June 10. Three bookmakers were sentenced to terms of hard labour by Mr Justice Reed, to-day, as the sequel to the police raids in New Plymouth and Stratford recently. William Henry Lash, Stratford, and Robert. Mascall, New Plymouth, were each sentenced to three months’ hard labour, and ordered to pay £25 costs, in default, another month. Sydney Royal Lovell, New Plymouth, in whose case the jury disagreed, but who changed his plea to guilty on one count, was sentenced to two months’ hard labour, with costs £25 or another month. Frederick Charles Hawke, New Plymouth, recommended to leniency by the jury, was ordered to come up for sentence within two years, on condition that he paid £lO costs within a month, also to take out a prohibition orde and to abstain from laying odds, or backing horses.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 10 June 1933, Page 7
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