Bookmaker Says He Will Bet Again
GAMBLER_BY NATURE UNDETERRED BY FIT E “It is no use my saying that I will not bet again,” said George Ytfiison, charged at the Police Court this morning with carrying on business as a bookmaker. “I am a gambler by nature.” He was fined £lO. ■yyiLSON. a labourer aged 42. pleaded guilty and was described by Chief-Detective Hammond as a silver bettor. He claimed that he was laying doubles at £4 to one shilling, but the chief-detective dis agreed and said the man was doing quite a lot of straight betting. His book showed that he had taken a number of bets, some at 10s, for the trots on Saturday. ‘‘He gets his living from this and lays his bets down on the wharves,” concluded the chiefdetective. Wilson denied that he got his living by bookmaking. He was employed on the waterfront, he said. Mr. F. K. Hunt, 5.M.,: You Till have to give up this business or you will be fined heavily. Wilson refused to make a promise. “If a man gives me five shillings to put on a horse I must take it,” he said. “I am a gambler by nature.” “Bookmaking is very one-sided gambling,” commented the magistrate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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207Bookmaker Says He Will Bet Again Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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