£150 FINE IMPOSED FOR BOOKMAKING
CHRISTCHURCH, Tins Day (O.C.)—Flint had been found takingbets over the telephone in a house in Fitzgerald Avenue oh Saturday. .He had taken £lB4 when the detectives arrived, and £72 was taken duiing the fifty minutes they spent there, said Detective-Sergeant A. B. Tate, in the Magistrate’s Court when Ernest Alfred George Flint, aged 41, a clerk and labourer was charged with carrying on the business of a book-maker. Flint had admitted the offence to the detectives, DetectiveSergeant Tate added. Flint pleaded guilty and was convicted and fined £l5O by Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M. “You know the attitude of the Court in these matters,” said the Magistrate in imposing the fine and warning Flint that he would be imprisoned if he came before the Court again on a similar charge.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1949, Page 3
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