Bookmaker Fined £SO
Had Most Successful Time ANONYMOUS COMPLAINTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.? CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 16. As the result of a raid. on. the Tautaki billiard saloon the licensee, A\ uliam Thomas Ooulthaxd,, agied 30, was fined £SO and costs by Mr Mosley, S.M., to-day for carrying on business as a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty. The police said that detectives visited the rooms as the result of anonymous complaints and found Ooulthard at a telephone taking bets: There were 255 betting entries l m one hook alone. Be had apparently a most successful time, particularly with doubles, having had to pay out practically nothing. The magistrate; He will have to pay out now. This is a serious offence a-id the man has been in a fairly big way.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1934, Page 9
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127Bookmaker Fined £50 Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1934, Page 9
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