SHARP COMMENT.
BOOKMAKING PREVALENCE
MAGISTRATE’S OBSERVATION
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. Nov. 2
Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., sharply commented this morning during the hearing of a bookniaking case on the prevalence of betting among relief workers.
Thomas Henry Owens, aged 35, a motor driver, was fined £2O and costs for carrying on business as a bookmaker.
Mr Mosley said : “From one’s experience there is a good deal of illicit betting among various bodies of unemployed workers, considering that everyone is taxed to find the money and we all regret the necessity, it seems a bit rough oil the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away the money deliberately on bookmaking. It is worse than that —jt is deliberate fraud on the community. Several of these bookmakers are working ostentatiously in the midst of these fellows. That, however, cannot influence me. In this case this man is a bookmaker in a small way,” he said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 288, 2 November 1933, Page 8
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