“FRAUD ON COMMUNITY”
BETTING BY UNEMPLOYED MAGISTRATE’S STRICTURES (Par Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Tiie magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley, sharply commented this morning, during the hearing of a bookmaking case, on the prevalence of betting among relief workers. Thomas Henry Owens, 35, a motor driver, was fined £2O and costs for carrying on business as a bookmaker. Mr. Mosley said: “From one’s experience, there is a good deal of illicit betting among various bodies of unemployed workers. Considering that everyone is taxed to find the money, and we all regret the necessity, it seems a bit rough on the taxpayer for relief workers to throw away their money deliberately on bookmakers. It is worse than that; it is a deliberate fraud on the community. Several of these bookmakers are working ostensibly in tSe midst of these fellows. That, however, cannot influence me in this case. This man is a bookmaker in a small way.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 8
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