"BEATING THE LAW"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 4

"BEATING THE LAW"

BOOKMAKERS HEAVILY FINED

(Bj Telegraph—Press Association)

NAPIER, 24th March. Pleading guilty to carrying on business as. a bookmaker, Arthur Joseph Yeo was this morning fined £350 by Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M. The police said Yeo had set himself to flout the law and had escaped for six years since his previous conviction. There were two telephones in his house with switches in the bathroom and kitchen.

The Magistrate remarked that it vas common knowledge that Yeo was "the big bookmaker of Napier." True, the accused had not been convicted for some years, but the Bench would surely be thick in the head if it believed that that indicated that ho had ceased bcokmaking. Rather did it show that r.ccused had been able by ins tricks aud schemes successfully to beat ire 1.. w. His Worship thought that a fine of £350 was warranted.

James Samuel Golding, previously convicted in 1924, 1927, and 1928, pieaded guilty to carrying on business as a bookmaker and using his premises as a common gaming house. He was fined £l5O and £IOO respectively. . The Magistrate remarked that Golding was just as bad as Yeo. He evidently had made up his mind to beat the law, and fines had not deterred him. The police said he seemed to rvgard a fine simply as a license fee.