With liis double chart, apparently Norman Towart bad ambitions of making some £6O, but the arrival of detectives at the King George Hotel, Christ - cluircb, nipped the project in the bud. Towart was fined £2 and costs for publishing a double chart by Mr. E. I). Mosley, in the I'olica Court, and the chart will remain in the care of the police. Towart, who is a mid-dle-aged man, pleaded guilty On March 22 two detectives visited the King George Hotel, said Chief Detective J. Carroll. They saw Towart in the bar exhibiting a double chart. It was only a small one. Towart had sold 16 doubles at 2s each. If lie had got the book full the chief detective thought he stood to win about £6O. Towart said that he had not received any money at all from his enterprise.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 7
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