BOOKMAKING BUSINESS
TOBACCONIST’S ESTIMATE. [PBB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, April 19., Th bookmhaking business was on trial in the Police Court, this morning, when its case ;was; valiantly put by Arthur George Williams, 43; tobacconist, charged with using premises as a common gamiig house. Asked by Mr 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 the 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 better. Williams, who was stated to have been in Court twice last year, was fined £lOO, in default three months’ imprisonment. He was allowed seven days to pay.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1938, Page 7
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