FINE OF £SO.
Man Ran Organised Betting House. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 2. “This is an organised betting house, ’* said Mr Wvvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court when Stanley Thomson, aged thirty-two, a commission agent, admitted a charge .of using premises as a common gaming house. Detectives executed a search warrant on the premises on New Year’s Day. They found that accused had laid 284 doubles during the Auckland meeting and had taken £9l. He was a member of the Bookmakers’ Association, and was in the habit of printing his own doubles charts. Accused was fined £SO, in de* fault one month’s imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20503, 3 January 1935, Page 11
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105FINE OF £50. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20503, 3 January 1935, Page 11
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