PROBATION IN NORTH FOR ILLEGAL BETTING
(P.A.) - WHANGAREI, Nov. 1. Hugh Kennedy Sirl, stock agent, of Whangarei. was yesterday placed on probation for 12 months on charges of carrying on business of a bookmaker and entering into a bet on the result of a horse race. The evidence showed that Sirl entered into a bet with a plain clothes constable who had been sent from Auckland to detect bookmakers. A charge against Hugh Patrick Stewart of obstructing the police by warning Sirl of the identity of the constable was dismissed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23091, 2 November 1949, Page 3
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