DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 22 May 1944, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

BOOKMAKER FINED £lOO. CHRISTCHURCH, May 20. “This is the third time you have been before the Court. You are risking your "liberty, aren’t you ” sai r ] the Magistrate (Mr. E C. Levvey, S.M.) this morning, imposing a fine of £lOO, in default three months’ gaol, on Waiter Sargison, a barmanporter, aged 48, for carrying on the business of a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty. ■ Detective-Sergeant F. J. Bray said that in company with Detectives T. Knowles and T. G. Ward, he visited premises in Manchester Street, where Sargison was found carrying on the business of a bookmaker. A total of £64 in bets and doubles had been taken on races to-day. While they were on the premises the telephone ran? several times, and a further £8 15s. was taken in bets. Sargison ran his business singlehanded, said Mr. Brady. He had previously been charged with keeping .a common gaming house on February 23, 1935, when he had been fined £25. and, on September 6, 1943, a fine of £5O was imposed on a similar charge. The business was rather fascinating said Sargison. He had carried it on for some years in a small way on his days off. N.Z. PRISONERS OF WAR. { WELLINGTON, May 20. The Prisoner of War Inquiry Office advises that during the past week advice concerning twenty-one more prisoners who were formely in Italian prison camps had been received. Seventeen were transferred to Germany, two escaped to the Allied lines, and two to Switzerland. There are still 360 whose whereabouts is not yet known. An International Red Cross report on a visit to Stalag IX A/2 in March has • been received. It states that ordinary rations are supplemented by parcels. Clothing is satisfactory and the. sanitary arrangements adequate. The officer in charge of the medical services stated that the health record is excellent and a dentist attends to dental needs. Regular religious services are held and there is a library installed in a bad-ly-lighted recreation room. Games are enthusiastically played They include skating and curling. Walks are taken under guard, and gardening is done. Mail, though regular, is slow. The prisoners may write three letters and four cards a. month. The reserve of food parcels is sufficient to meet requirements for twenty weeks. The canteen sells beer, but various articles have been requested from the International Red Cross in Geneva. Discipline is strict, but there are no complaints. Morale is excelent. REEFTON PUBLIC NOTICES.