BOOKMAKERS’ BAD DAY.
HEAVY FINES IMPOSED
By Telegraph—Press Association,
AUCKLAND, Juno 9
Two heavy lines, one ot ±huu, and another ot a!3UU, were imposed m tno Police Court to-day uy Magistrate Boynton on men charged with being booKmakers.
Wm. George Brown (44), pleaded guilty. Mr Frear, for accused, said tho latter had a business and was not doing too well, He had never been before the Court before.
Chief Detective Cummings, in reply to counsel, said ho had had no complaints about Brown’s bookmaking activities. He had known accused foi ten years, and apart from being a bookmaker accused had a good character.
Brown was fined £3OO, in default twelve months imprisonment. Joseph George Reese (49) who had been convicted before, was fined £4OO, in default eighteen months’. In each case a week was allowed to pay the fine.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 10 June 1924, Page 8
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139BOOKMAKERS’ BAD DAY. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 10 June 1924, Page 8
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