FINED £SO
AUCKLAND BOOKMAKER
‘ ‘ ORG ANTS ED BETTI NT!
HOUSE”
(Per Tress Association.) AUCKLAND, last night
“This is an organised betting house,” said Mr. Wyvorn Wilson, S.kl., in the Police Court, when Stanley Thompson, 32, commission agent, admitted a charge of using Ihe prem-ises-as a common gaming house. Detectives executed a. search warrant on the premises on New Year’s Day. They found that accused had’ laid 28-1 doubles during the Auekland meeting, and lmd taken £9l. He was a member of the P.fiokniakers ’ Association and was in the habit ol printing iiis own double charts. Accused was lined £SO, in default one month’s imprisonment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 5
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