COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1929, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

BOOKMAKER FINED £75. (By i*rupt>—Pretw Association..' WELLINGTON, April 2. A fine of £75 was imposed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day on Arthur Law, aged 56, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of using lus room as a common gaming house. Two other men. !Lewis Harris, a tailor, aged 4b, and Lionel Zucker, an agent, aged So, were charged with being found in the room without a lawful purpose.. Hams was fined £2 and Zucker £5. Chief Detective Ward said that Law had been carrying on the business ot bookmaker for many years and was one of the largest, if not the largest bookmaker in the Dominion. Yesterday detectives seized in a room m the exchange Buildings, occupied by the accused, a large quantity or betting m The* 3 defendant's books showed that over a period of five days during the Easter race meetings he had taken bets amounting to £1774. He had been before the court in 1912 on »no chaige. of publishing double charts. From the dock, Law- told the Magistrate, Mr Barton, that he had nothing to say.