MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT
BOOKMAKING SAID TO BE SUBVERSIVE MONEY DIVERTED TO ILLEGITIMATE PURPOSES [United Press Association! HAMILTON 29th December. That the activities of bookmakers were directly subversive was expressed by Mr Paterson. S.M.. in the Magistrates’ Court. Hamilton, when two men were charged with using premises as common gaming houses. All the energies of the country, said the magistrate, should be directed to war purposes. Bookmaking diverted money which should be used for the promotion of the war to illegitimate purposes, and those engaged in it would be better occupied in doing something for the benefit of the country. Owners of common gaining houses could not be blind to what was going on. and it was time some action was taken against them.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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