BOOKMAKERS FINED
MAGISTRATE’S COMMENTS. [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Aug. 11. William Thomas Osmand, tobacconist, aged 29, was fined £lOO for using his premises, at 164 Hobson Street, as a common gaming house. John Henry Weaver, aged 31, was fined £5O for a similar offence at 23 Seafield Road. The Magistrate (Mr Hunt): to Osmand: You read, of course, the Chief Justice’s remarks the other day. Osmand: I did. Mr Hunt: Well, the Chief Justice says that magistrates are not doing their duty if they do not send bookmakers to gaol. However, you are charged with keeping a gaming house, not bookmaking, with three convictions against you. Now you must realise that you must give this game up.
Weaver had one other conviction in 1929.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 189, 12 August 1931, Page 8
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