“Healthy Profit” Of Bookmaker
The amount of betting slips in the accused’s possession—we have not got all his records—showed that lie had taken £340 11s in bets,” said Chief Detective E. H- Compton, when prosecuting James Findlay, aged 45, motor mechanic, in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on a charge of bookmaking. The bets were for last week-end’s races and a week or two before, said Mr. Compton. It was found that the accused had made “a very healthy profit" on those operations alone. He had been operating in a Wellington social club and had been found very difficult to detect. Complaints had been received about him as far back as 1945.
After entering a plea of guilty for the accused, Mr. W. G. L. Hellish said that he was definitely not one of the ■‘big men" as might at first be supposed. He was really only a “silver bettor" and had restricted his business mainly to his acquaintances. Imposing a fine of £IOO, Mr. A. H. Goulding, S.M., said that a substantial penalty was the only way to deal with an offender who had obviously been operating in a big way over a long period.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22907, 29 March 1949, Page 8
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