AIDING BOOKMAKING
DELIVERY OF A LETTER BUS DRIVER FINED £lO Waipawa. June 7. Persons deemed to be knowingly acting as agents between investors and bookmakers are liable to conviction for aiding in the commission of bookmaking, according to a reserved judgment delivered by Mr J. Miller, S.M., at Waipawa. The case was one in which Brian Joseph Cameron, bus driver, aged 23, was charged with aiding in the commission of bookmaking. He pleaded not guilty. It was then stated for the prosecution that Cameron, who drove a bus from the Pukeora Sanatorium to Waipukurau, had on April 14 delivered a scaled envelope to a billiard saloon proprietor. The envelope contained a £5 note and instructions as to how it was to be invested on a racehorse. The magistrate held that defendant had knowledge that he was assisting in the commission of an offence-and entered a conviction. Mr Harker said that defendant was not a racing man and had no conception that he was doing wrong. "There has never been a prosecution of this kind before,” counsel added, “and hut for defendant’s statement to the police there could not have been a conviction.” The magistrate fined defendant £lO. Security for appeal was fixed at £2O.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 9 June 1945, Page 4
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