FINE FOR BOOKMAKING.
" ONLY OBLIGING FRIENDS."
WATERSIDER TO PAY £3O
"Accused is not really a bookmaker; he only obliges his friends," said Air. McLiver in the Police Court yesterday, in asking,for leniency on behalf of Rohert -Francis Singe, aged 46, who was charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty, Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that at 11.45 a.m. on Saturday last Detectiveß Nalder and Packman arrested accused in Quay Street. When arrested accused had in his pQssession £37 10s and a quantity of belting material, including cards in connection with races being held that day in Wellington and Paeroa. He had takeii 33 small bets, for which £8 6s had been received,' while charts found showed that he had laid 64 doubles. Accused, who was a waterside worker between race meotings, had been fined £ls for a similar offence on March 2, 1929. Counsel said accused made bets in a very small way, receiving sums of from 'ls to 2s 6d. He was really only obliging his friends.
"And obliging himself, too," added (ho magistrate, Mr. F. Iv. Hunt. Singe was convicted and fined £3O.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20827, 20 March 1931, Page 14
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