TOTALISATOR INVESTMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 June 1926, Page 13

TOTALISATOR INVESTMENT.

AN ILLEGAL ACT. TICKET FOR ANOTHER PERSON. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Very few people, indeed, know that it is. an offence punishable by a fine of £29, or by imprisonment, for taking money from a person to put on the totalisator at a race meeting. Charles William Bruce appeared at the Police Court to-day, when he pleaded guilty to the following charge: “That, not being an authorised agent of a racing club licensed to use the -totalisator, he did unlawfully act as agent for Amplias Daniels in connection with a 10s. ticket on a horse in the Hauraki Plains Handicap.” Senior Detective Hammond stated that while at the Takapuna races Bruce undertook to invest money for a woman and was given 10n to put on a certain horse. The horse won, and it was alleged that the accused gave the woman a “dud” ticket. Accused’s actions, alleged the detective, were not only in contravention to the law but were dishonest, and really amounted to theft. Bruce explained that he got the ticket from another man, and handed it over to the woman thinking it was quite all right. “It was a mean thing to do,” said the magistrate, in inflicting a fine of £lO and costs Ils, or 14 days’ imprisonment.