TOTE TICKETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 164, 12 June 1926, Page 9

TOTE TICKETS.

ACTING AS AGENT. PUNISHABLE OFFENCE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. June 11. Very few people indeed know that it is an offence punishable by a fino of £2O or imprisonment to take money from a person to put on the totalisator at race meetings. Charles William Bruce appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when he pleaded guilty, to the following charge : “Not being an authorised. agent of a racing club licensed to use the’ totalisator, ho did unlawfully act as agent for Amplias Daniels in connection with a 10s ticket on a horse in tho Hauraki Plains Handicap.” Senior-Detective Hammond stated that while at tho Taknpuua races Bruce undertook to invest money for a woman, and was given 10s to put on a certain horse. The horse won, and it was alleged that accused gave tho woman ft “dud” ticket. Accused’s actions, alleged Mr Hammond, were not only in contravention of the law, but were dishonest and really amounted, to theft.

Bruce explained that he got the ticket from another man and handed it over to tho woman, thinking that it was quite all right. “It was a mean thing to do,” said the magistrate in inflicting a fine of £lO and costs lls, or J 4 days’ imprisonment.