BOOKMAKING CHARGES
FINES MERELY LICENCES INCITEMENT TO BREAK LAW (Pee United Press Association) ' WELLINGTON, June 3. Dealing with a bookmaking charge to-day, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., said that the open flouting of the gaming laws had probably as much to do with the increase of adolescent crime as anything in New Zealand. Young people saw such a serious offence as bookmaking carried on with impunity, and they came to think it clever to flout the law. The defendant was Ralph Ellis Thompson, aged 58, a barman, who pleaded guilty, , , “Probably the courts have not done their duty,” said Mr Luxford, “ and fines have been imposed year after year which have been nothing more than licence fees to bookmakers. I do not propose suddenly to change what has been almost an established practice in inflicting fines in these cases.” n . A fine was imposed of £2O ana costs It ’was stated that there was no evidence that defendant had been betting in anything but a small way, and no evidence that he had been betting for a lengthy period. Eight years ago he was a bookmaker, and was heavily fined, but afterwards, said counseL he had lived within the law.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 21
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