BETTING BY UNEMPLOYED
—■». —— SMALL BOOKMAKER FINED “ ROUGH ON THE TAXPAYER.’’ (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 2. The magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) sharply commented this morning during the hearing of a bookmaking case on the prevalence of betting among relief workers. Thomas Henry Owens,, aged 35, a motor driver, was fined £2O and costs for carrying on business as a bookmaker. “ From one’s experience there is a good deal of illicit betting among various bodies of unemployed workers,” Mr Mosley commented. " Considering that everyone is taxed to find the money—and we all regret the necessity—it seems a bit rough on the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away money deliberately on bookmakers. It is worse than that—it is a deliberate fraud on the community Several of these bookmakers are working ostensibly in the midst of these fellows. That, however, cannot influence me in this. case. This man is a bookmaker in a small wav.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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