TEMPTING THE YOUNG.
A JUDGE ON BOOKMAKERS. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] : '■' ' • ;■■••- Wellington, Tuesday. In sentencing a young man named Edgar Joseph Mercer to four months' hard labour for stealing moneys from the Railway .Department, his lapses having been caused * through horse-racing, the judge said, the law allowed professional bettors as a ..recognised part of the . community. Bookmakers . were, permitted to permeate the resorts of young men, who . were thereby exposed to great temptations. " I join with others," added the judge, " in stating emphatically that the sooner we return ,to the former state of affairs the better."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14220, 17 November 1909, Page 7
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95TEMPTING THE YOUNG. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14220, 17 November 1909, Page 7
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