THREAT OF GAOL TERM
BOOKMAKER IN COURT £IOO FINE IMPOSED Press Association STRATFORD, Monday. For keeping a, common gaming house Ernest A. Johnston, who appeared in the Stratford Police Court today, was fined £IOO. For assisting in the conduct of a common gaming house, William IT. Lash was fined £25. Three persons found on the premises were fined £1 each. Johnston had had one previous conviction for a similar offence. In addressing the Court, his counsel submitted that there could be no question of imprisonment, as no Court had yet seen fit to imprison a bookmaker. He said he hardly expected the Stratford Court to be the first in New Zealand to award imprisonment. Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., interjected that it might be. Counsel said there was a case on record in which a fine of £SO had been considered adequate for a fourth offence. In imposing the fines the magistrate said that, whether or not the Stratford Court should be the first in New Zealand to award imprisonment for bookmakers, if Johnston appeared a third time he would go to prison. Perhaps another person, for even a second offence, might meet a similar fate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 7
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