RELIEF WORKERS AND GAMBLING.
Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., sharply commented at Christchurch on Thursday, during the hearing of a bookmaking case, on the prevalence of betting among relief workers. Thomas Henry Owens, aged 35 years, a motor driver, was fined £2O and costs for carrying on business as a bookmaker. Mr Mosley said that from one’s experience there was a good deal of illicit betting among the various bodies of unemployed workers. “Considering that everyone is taxed to find the money—and we all regret the necessity,” he added, “it seems a bit tough on the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away the money deliberately on bookmakers. It is worse than that; it is a. deliberate fraud on the community. Several of these bookmakers are working ostensibly in the midst of these fellows. That, however, cannot influence me in this ease. This man is a bookmaker in a small way.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 4260, 4 November 1933, Page 3
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151RELIEF WORKERS AND GAMBLING. Manawatu Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 4260, 4 November 1933, Page 3
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