RAIDS UPON BOOKMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1929, Page 10

RAIDS UPON BOOKMAKERS

POLICE COUP IN WAIKATO ARRESTS MADE IN VARIOUS TOWNS MAGISTRATE ISSUES WARNING, SEVERE PENALTIES INFLICTED. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Hamilton, Last Night. . Raids -’were ‘made by ■ £hd'‘police' in various Waikato. towns this morning on premises, suspected- of being; run ‘aa •. common ga,ming houses. As a iresult five arrests- were" made' in Hamilton, while others; were effected at Morrinsville, Matamata; Rotorua and Te Puke. The raids were on an organised basis, and were the- - largest eyer conducted in the Hamilton, police district. ;- They were carried out with precision and tliorongh?'-' ness, and were over before any of the • owners of the raided premises- had ah opportunity,'- of putting the others “wise” to the-police operations. - ■ ; In the Police Court Charles - Jackson (hairdresser)': and James Henry ■. Doleman (tobacconist). were each fined £lOO for keeping, common.gaming houses. R 6» bert Irvine-, (hat-blocker) was fined £3O for a similar offence arid bookmaking, while Hillary : Quinn (insurance agent) and Charles O’Brien were each (fined £3O for bookmaking. . The Magistrate, Mr. Wyvean Wilson, said bookmakers were parasites, fend should be rightly put down. He refer-. • red not only to large, but to small, bookmakers. The small bookmaker lived on the working man, who could least afford to keep him. h . The Magistrate warned the licensees of the hotels against permitting bookmakers on their premises. Licensees were liable to jeopardise their by allowing that sort of thing to coni tinuc. '' - ’ At Morinsville Stephen Bain was fined £lOO for keeping a common ‘ gaming house.