Bookmaker Fined £150; Magistrate’s Comment
(P.A.) INVERCARGILL, This Day. In the Magistrate’s Court be!ore Mr Harlow S.M. today, George Crawford, aged 39, a tobacconist, pleaded guilty to carrying on the business of a bookmaker and was fined £l5O. The Magistrate said he was not sure if it was a case for a fine. The people of this country had demonstrated plainly that they did not want bookmakers. Mr Harlow added that ne thought the time was coming when bookmaking would have to be treated as an offence that warranted imprisonment. In this case he would accept the defendant’s assurance that he was giving up bookmaking and the case would be met by a substantial fine.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1949, Page 2
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