BOOKMAKERS FINED.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 3

BOOKMAKERS FINED.

I EXEMPLARY PENALTIES'. , ■ Per Press Association. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 3. Louis Curtis and William Pollock, botli of Dunedin, were charged at the Magistrate's Court to-day with making bets on licensed premises, and for distributing cards without tho name and address of the printer attached. The facts were admitted. i The magistrate, _ Mr. McCarthy, im- I posed fines on Curtis totalling £206, and on Pollock £216. Mr. M'Carthy said that bookmakers, notwithstanding the gradual increase in fines, had gone on 'defying the law, ; treating the fines as mere licenses. It was the court’s duty to see that the law was not defied with impunity, and to ascertain who was tho strongest factor; in the Dominion, Parliament or the bookiriakers. Ho had inflicted the maximum penalty, and issued a warning that in future cases .imprisonment would follow conviction.