FINES FOR BOOKMAKING
(P.A.) NELSON. Jan. 19. Pleading guilty to a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker at Motueka, Harold Keith Karsten was fined £IOO in the Magistrate's Court. Detective-Sergeant T. Murray said the evidence indicated that the defendant was only in a small way. Karsten was fined £75 last June for a similar offence. Daniel Young, who also pleaded guilty to bookmaking, was lined £SO. The detective-sergeant said a coun try farmer placed £5 worth of bets with the defendant. Two horses won, earning £25 in dividends, but when tlie farmer called to collect the defendant said he had lost his slip and refunded £5. The farmer had complained about the position.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21924, 19 January 1946, Page 4
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