PREVALENCE OF BETTING
MEN ON RELIEF WORK COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE [BY - TELEGRAPH —PP.ESS ASSOCIATION J CHRISTCHUECH, Thursday Comment on the prevalence of be:tine among relief workers was made bv Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Police Court to-day during the hearing of a bookmaking case. A motor driver, Thomas Henry Owens, aged 'Ao. was fined £2O and costs for carrying on the business of a bookmaker. Mr. Mosley said that there was a good deal of illicit betting among various bodies of unemployed workers. Considering that everyone was taxed to find the monej-, and all regretted the necessity, it seemed unfair to the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away their money deliberately on bookmakers. It was worse than that. It was a deliberate fraud on the community. Some bookmakers were working ostensibly in the midst of the unemploved. but that could not influence the Court in this case. The accused, said Mr. Mosley, was a bookmaker in a small way.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 12
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