BOOKMAKING

Southland Times, Issue 21101, 5 June 1930, Page 5

BOOKMAKING

TWO MEN FINED. CASES AT NAPIER. (Per United Press Association.) Napier, June 4. Herbert Reuben Moore, described as the leading bookmaker in Hastings, and William Gordon Robertson were to-day fined £4O and £3O respectively by Mr A. M. Mowlem, S.M., on charges of frequenting Heretaunga Street for the purpose of betting. William Dow and Ernest Henry Gardiner, similarly charged, were remanded on bail of £lOO each and sureties of £lOO each. Detective-Sergeant Fitzgibbon said there was an unwholesome aspect about Hastings so far as bookmaking was concerned. There was far too much of it going on and people complained they could not go into a hotel without having bookmakers come and solicit business. It was the same in billiard rooms. - Counsel for Moore said that defendant Was only in a small way and far from wealthy, indeed he made only the barest living from bookmaking. His Worship: Then why doesn’t he go back to the legitimate business of a tobacconist? ...

Counsel: He may perhaps do so after this conviction. His Worship: Once a bookmaker, always a bookmaker. I • have never yet known one go back to a decent occupation. Counsel ’said he knew two, perhaps three, and his Worship said, “Oh yes, 1 believe there was"'one here.” Moore and Robertson were both first offenders.