AT ’TOTE ODDS.
HEA.VY FINES IMPOSED. *
ON HAWKER AND TOBACCONIST. (BY TELVGRAPTT —PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 17. At the Magistrate’s Court this afternoon Joseph Nohra, an Assyrian hawker, was fined £25 for loitering in Cathedral Square for the purposes of betting, and £lO on each of two charges of having made bet-s at totalisator odds. It was alleged that the defendant was acting as agent .for a bookmaker.
William Henry Pullen was fined £IOO for using his tobacconist’s shop as a common gaming house;
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 December 1924, Page 5
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84AT ’TOTE ODDS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 December 1924, Page 5
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