BOOKMAKER FINED
TWICE IN ONE WEEK SUBSTANTIAL PENALTY PAID (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 12. A man who was convicted of bookmaking last Tuesday, when he was fined £IOO, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court again to-day charged with bookmaking on Saturday. He pleaded guilty and was fined £250. “ I shall not inflict imprisonment on this occasion, but I shall if he does it again,” said the Magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout. According to the evidence, the accused, Robert Colie, a salesman, aged 58, had taken £l4l 15s in bets over the telephone up to the time detectives arrived on the premises. His explanation was he was obliging his clientele for the last time. Seymour Hardie. a storeman, aged 32, was also charged with bookmaking on Saturday and was fined £IOO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26229, 13 August 1946, Page 6
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