FINE FOR BOOKMAKING
WELLINGTON, Yesterday (P.A.)— Stating that he would take into account. the age and health of accused. Mr A. M. Goulding. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today convicted William George White, aged 60, a bootmaker, on a charge of bookmaKing. and imposed a fine of £5O. The magistrate said he always took the view that an agent’s principal paid any fine that might be inflicted on him in court. Accused had been fined £75 in March for a similar offence, and had it not been for the facts outlined by counsel, an even heavier nonalty would have been inflicted on this occasion. Counsel for accused said that because of increasing blindness, accused had (o give up his necupation as a bootmaker.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 December 1948, Page 2
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