BOOKMAKERS PUNISHED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19033, 10 June 1924, Page 5

BOOKMAKERS PUNISHED

HEAVY FINES IMPOSED. £4OO AND £3OO. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 9. Two heavy fines—oho of £4OO and another of £3oo—were imposed in the Police Court to-day by Magistrate Poynter on men charged with bookmaking. William George Brown, aged 44, pleaded guilty. Mr Frear, for accused, said the 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 he had no complaints about Brown’s bookmaking actions. He had known accused for ten years, and, apart from being a bookmaker, accused had a good character. Brown was fined £3OO, in ' default twelve months’ imprisonment. Joseph George Rees, aged 49, who had been convicted before, was fined £4OO, in default eighteen months’ imprisonment. In each case a week w’as allowed to pay the fine.