£200 in Fines

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 644, 22 April 1929, Page 1

£2OO in Fines

TWO MORE BOOKMAKERS

“That’s too Solid,” Said One

TWO more bookmakers were charged at the Police Court this morning. Both men pleaded guilty and the State benefited to the extent of £2OO.

Ray Thomas Tarbrun, a clerk aged 22, was said to have used premises known as No. 4 Wright’s Buildings. Fort Street, as a common gaming house. Chief-Detective Hammond reminded the court that Tarbrun had been fined £SO in 1927, When he was assisting a bookmaker named Saunders. He was now out of that business and had started on his own. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., imposed a fine of £IOO, but the chief-detective demurred a little. “That may be a little too much, but after all, he has his own office and telephone,” he said. Tarbrun objected much more vigorously. “That is too solid,” he declared.

“You knew what you were about when you went into the business,”

commented the magistrate, and gave; the man 14 days to find the money. THIRD OFFENCE William McMillan, a clerk aged 50, admitted that he had used premises at 115 Hobson Street as a common gaming house. According to Mr. Hammond the business was carried on under the semblance of a tobacconist’s shop. McMillan had been totalisator betting for a good while, and was conducting the business for a man named Curran, who was in Sydney. “McMillan was fined £25 last year and £25 in 1927,” concluded the chief detective. “The fines were imposed as a result of offences in regard to the same prem--IS<A fine of £IOO, in default three months’ imprisonment, was imposed.