BOOKMAKING AT RACES
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE FINED.
CHEAP TOTALISATOR ADVOCATED.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 8.
Caught laying totalisator odds at the Ellerslie racecourse on Saturday, Harry McChrystal to-day was fined £5. The police stated that the man was a Government employee, and apparently took bets in his spare time. There had been a number of complaints of men taking bets on the racecourse. “When they get the five shilling tote it will stop this sort of thing, ’ said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1931, Page 6
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