FINES TOTAL £3OO.
GISBORNE STREET BETTING. TWO MEN CONVICTED. , I, [j v TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.; GISBORNE, Feb. 26. Before Mr Levvy, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Charles Croon, charged with street betting and publishing a double card, was convicted on five counts. Arthur Owen pleaded guilty to two charges of street betting. The court said the cases could not be treated lightly. A great deal of the business that came before the court was no doubt due to the illicit operations of men of accused’s type. On the first street betting charge. Croon was fined £IOO, and on each of the others £2O. On the charges of publishing double charts, Croon was fined £2O on each. Owen was fined - £IOO on the first and £2O on the second charges
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 February 1926, Page 7
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130FINES TOTAL £300. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 26 February 1926, Page 7
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