The Woman Pays

NZ Truth, Issue 1304, 11 December 1930, Page 5

The Woman Pays

' I A «£2 fine, and an order that = | /* she should not go on race- I • | courses was the warning given | : = Elsie Blandins Swindley by = ' I Mpj_.F. K. Hunt, S.M., m the | ' I-.-' Auckland Police Court when | 1 she pleaded guilty to a charge | • i of laying "tote" odds on an | I Auckland racecourse. ' | [ 1 Though Elsie pleaded guilty | i - 1 to the offence with which she = 1 was charged she denied having. | I any previous experience of the = 1 bookmakihg game and protest- | | ed that she had never laid odds | | before. i | "Will you give it up if. I | i let you off lightly?" demanded | , | the Magistrate, and • Elsie | | signified that she would cer- | - | tainly do so. < § • I "You mustn't do it," was Mr. | • | Hunt's final admonition as he | I inflicted the fine, and Elsie - = i | turned - away" a sadder' but | 1 wiser woman. ; | ■' limiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii