BOOKMAKING AT NAVAL BASE
AUCKLAND. This Day (P.A.).— For bookmaking at the Devonport naval base; Richard Guy Paul Earl, aged 41, a boilermaker, was fmed £5O, in default six months’ gaol, today in the Police Court. The police said that one apprentice became financially involved and stayed away from work. Earl, when arrested, possessed papers relating to bets totalling £316 on five race days. Counsel for Earl said that bets were taken not as a business but to oblige bettors by handing them on for commission.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1949, Page 5
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