FINE OF £20
MADE BET WITH BOOKMAKER By leiegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, November 26. For making a bet with a bookmaker, Harold Coleman was fined £2O, or one month’s imprisonment. Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., said, in imposing the penalty: “It comes to this: Bookmakers carry on only because of the support of a lot of individuals, cood, bad and indifferent. A man who bets with a bookmaker helps him to carry on his illegal calling, and is equally and morally guilty of the offence. I believe some people take up the attitude that the bettor with a bookmaker is just as bad as the bookmaker himself. It is something like the position of a receiver to a thief.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20896, 27 November 1937, Page 4
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119FINE OF £20 Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20896, 27 November 1937, Page 4
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