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BOOKMAKING TOBACCONIST. NAPIER, June 10. A police raid on Saturday on premises in Emerson Street. Napier, resulted in the appearance of Max Rae, tobacconist, before Mr J. Miller, S.M.. in the Magistrate’s Court, charged with keeping his premises as a common gaming-house. He was fined £35, with 10/- costs. Detective-Sergeant Nuttall detailed a raid upon the premises in which he was accompanied by Detective Mills and Constable Bonnington. Evidence that bookmaking was being carried on was found, but there was nothing to indicate that the business was a largo one. A telephone was situated in the rear of the premises in a lavatory. While the police were present. Detective Mills booked three bets over the telephone. Counsel for Rae submitted that the defendant’s bookmaking business was a very small one, and that it was confined to “doubles,” with a limit of five shillings. The Bench: He doesn’t need a telephone in the lavatory to take doubles.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVII, Issue 47, 14 June 1937, Page 3
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