Two Men Each Fined £l00 For Bookmaking
WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA). —Two men were each fined £lOO by Mr. J. S. Hanna, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, today, after they had pleaded guilty to separate charges of bookmaking over the week-end. Eugene Peter aged 29, clerk, was stated by Chief-Detective E. H. Compton to have taken £575 in bets up to the time he was apprehended at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Ralph John Ryland Mcßanflall. aged 54, watersider, was the second defendant. He had taken £147 in bets up to 2.15 yesterday, said Detective Compton.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 8 June 1949, Page 5
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