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BOOKMAKER’S ARREST

COMPLAINT BY COUNSEL (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 25. Criticism of the fact that his client had been arrested after he had been operating m the city 1 for only two or three months, while two other bookmakers had allegedly been in busines in the same street for a much longer period, was made by Mr M. Robinson, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when he appeared for Henry Thomas Read, a butcher, who pleaded guilty to a charge of using his shop as a common gaminghouse.

Mr Robinson said Read frankly admitted Using the premises for betting for a matter of weeks. ‘Th this case we have a new operator who is arrested within a matter of two or three months after starting, yet not far away in the same street is a bookmaker carrying on with a staff of clerks,” said Mr Robinson. “He has not been before the Court for some time. Also in the same street is another operator, who carries on extensively and has not been caught for a long time. Does Read’s arrest indicate that his real offence is an infringement on a monopoly that has extended in favour of others for so long? If such is the position, then I invite the Court to mark its disapproval of the whole position by imposing merely a nominal penalty in this case. I might add that Read has been operating onlv on Saturday.” Mr L. G. H. Sinclair, S.M.: All I can do is to administer the law. The evidence shows that Read has been using the shop for betting. I will take into consideration the fact that he is a first offender, and I hope this will be a lesson to him. Read was fined £3O.

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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 3

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BOOKMAKER’S ARREST Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 3

BOOKMAKER’S ARREST Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24911, 26 June 1946, Page 3

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