RELIEF WORKERS’ BETS
“DELIBERATE FRAUD ON COIMMUNITY” “ROUGH ON THE TAXPAYER” (Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 2. The magistrate, Mr E. D.. Mosley, sharply commented this morning, during the hearing of a bookmakingcase, on the prevalence of betting among relief workers. Thomas Henry Owens 35, a motor driver, was fined £2O and costs for carrying on business as a bookmaker, Mr Mosley said: “From one’s experience, there is a good deal *>f illicit betting among various bodies of unemployed workers. Considering that everyone is taxed to find the money, and iwe all regret the necessity, it seems a bit rough on the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away their money’ ( deliberately on bookmakers. It is worse than that; it is a deliberate fraud ion the community. Several of these bookmakers are working ostensibly in tlie mid'st of these fellows. That, however, cannot influence me in this case. This man is a bookmaker in a small way.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12092, 3 November 1933, Page 2
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156RELIEF WORKERS’ BETS Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 12092, 3 November 1933, Page 2
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