COURT WARNING OF POSSIBLE GAOL TERMS FOR BOOKMAKING
(P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Mar. 29. On a charge of bookmaking, to which he pleaded guilty, Victor Henry Hayles, tobacconist, of Mataura, was fined £4O yesterday by Mr. W. A. Harlow, S.M.. who said that it might not be long before bookmakers were imprisoned, even for a first offence. Mr. R. T. Meredith, who appeared for the defendant. said that because of tobacco rationing Hayles had practically been forced into bookmaking.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 29 March 1949, Page 8
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77COURT WARNING OF POSSIBLE GAOL TERMS FOR BOOKMAKING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 29 March 1949, Page 8
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