BOOKMAKER BEFORE COURT
FINE OF £75 IMPOSED (By Telegraph—Presa Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A fine of £75 was imposed in the Magistrate's Court to-day on Arthur Law, aged 56, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of using a room as a common gaming house. Two other men. Lew-is Harris, a tailor, aged 48, and Lionel Zucker. an agent, aged 33, were charged with being found in the room without lawful purpose. Harris was fined £2 and Zucker £5. Chief Detective Ward said that -Law had been carrying on the business of bookmaker for many years, and was one of the largest, if not the largest, bookmaker in the Dominion. Yesterday detectives seized in a room in the Exchange buildings, occupied by accused, a large quantity of betting 'material. Defendant s books showed that over a period of five days during Easter race meetings he had taken bets amounting to £1774. He had been before the Court in 1912 on two charges of publishing double charts. From the dock Law told the Magistrate, Mr Barton, that he had nothing to say.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 2 April 1929, Page 4
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