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MENTAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES BETS LAID BY PATIENTS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Mar. 4. Two attendants and a nurse at Porirua Mental Hospital—James Woods, Herbert Victory Tregonning, and Lily A. Thy—pleaded guilty before Mr W. F. Stillwell,. S.M., to a charge of carrying on the business of bookmaking at Porirua on or about January 18. > It .was stated that bets had been laid by patients on race meetings at Wellington and elsewhere. Each was fined £lO, in default one month's imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23442, 5 March 1938, Page 19
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