OPPOSITION TO TOTE
BOOKMAKER ON COURSE AT ELLERSLIE WHANGAREI MINER. [ Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Dec. 27. A Whangarei miner who set up business in opposition to the totalisator at Ellerslie yesterday and was quickly detected, was fined £5O and costs for carrying on the business of bookmaker by Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day.
He was Owen Trewheela, aged 32, and he pleaded guilty. Police evidence was that Trewheela was seen taking bets and paying out in the Derby enclosure at Ellerslie. When accosted he stated he was taking bets for another man, but was seen to take all bets and pay out himself. He also said he had “never been at the game before.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 2
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120OPPOSITION TO TOTE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 2
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