Bookmakers Fined.
Wanganui, This day. At the Magistrate's Court this morning Charles Redfern, Harry Darling, and Donald Campbell were each fined £2O, whilst Robert Walker, William Marriott and Patrick Sheehan, alias Conway, who acted as clerks to the above, were fined £'lo each by Mr Kettle, S.M., for laying tote odds at the Wanganui races yesterday. The full penalty provided by the Act is £l2O, and the Magistrate intimated that, in future, clerks would be treated the same as book-keepers, and imprisonment in place of fines would be inflicted. Detective Bishop laid the information.
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Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 867, 10 March 1899, Page 3
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94Bookmakers Fined. Hastings Standard, Volume III, Issue 867, 10 March 1899, Page 3
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