£250 FINE IMPOSED
ROTORUA BOOKMAKER SECOND MAN ACQUITTED (Per Pv((Rr Association.') ROTORUA, last night. « On a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker on February 2, the first day of the Rotorua races, Hori Man, an agent, of Rotorua., was on Thursday fined £250. Mr. S. L. Paterson, S.M., said Mail had a number of previous convictions which, apparently, had not acted as a deterrent, as he had persisted in illegal business in defiance of the law.
A charge 'of issuing a double chart and of aiding and allotting Joe Plamus to carry on the business of a bookmaker was brought against Albeit Janies Brown, but, after hearing the evidence, the magistrate said that the material difference in the evidence of the police witnesses made it unsafe to convict.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 3
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