Prison Term For Bookmaking Is Altered To A Fine
AUCKLAND, Last Night (PA).—A sentence of one month s imprisonment imposed on Henry Thomas Read, aged 63, for bookmaking was reduced to a fine of £6O in the Supreme Court today by Mr Justice Stanton. Read appealed against a sentence imposed by Mr F. McCarthy, S.M. Defence counsel said Read pleaded guilty in the Lower Court and was not represented. Appellant, in evidence, said that owing to ill-health he had to give up a butchery business three years ago. He began a tailoring and pressing business in 1946, and was fined for keeping a common gaming house. That was the first offence. He later had to give up a dairy business owing to ill-health.
Counsel said only a small amount of bookmaking was involved. The Judge said he was satisfied the magistrate would have imposed a fine if all the evidence had been before him.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 13 December 1949, Page 6
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