BOOKMAKERS AGENT
WOMAN FINED £l5 By Telegraph —Prp«« Association HASTINGS, July 14. On a charge of carrying on business as a bookmaker, Winifred Rollings, of Hastings, was fined £l5 with costs 10/by Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court. The defendant pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that he visited a small shop kept by defendant. She admitted she had agreed to accept bets for a bookmaker on the basis of 2/- in the £l. The most she had taken in any one day had been £5. She had taken on bookmaking because of business being bad. "This is a case like many others,” observed Mr Miller, “where people do not realise the risk they are taking.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20780, 15 July 1937, Page 13
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