GAOL FOR BOOKMAKER'S AGENT

Chronicle (Levin), 24 April 1946, Page 8

GAOL FOR BOOKMAKER'S AGENT

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WHANGAREI, April 23. "I have made it plain enough what j happens. vlle will be sentenced to 14 j tlays imprisonment." j This was the answer made by Mr. W. | 0. Ilarley, S.M., in the Whangarei | Court today, to a plea by eounsel- for ' 1 leniency for John Dean Grant, aged 28, j agent, of Whangarei, who pleaded j guilty to using premises as a cominon • gaming house. Detective »Sgt. Finlay said Grant hadj ' opened premises in Yine Street about! j tliree" weeks ago as a lending library. ' ! Late yesterdav at'tcrnoon Detective • i ilahood and Sergeant H. Hedley visit- ! ed the premises where they found eight ! men. Grant had frankly admitted i using the premises for l)Ookmakir.g purj poses. He had accepted about £200 in | win and place bets, paying totalisator i cdds with limits higlier than those paid by the Bookmakers' Association of, i wliich he was not a member. 1 I The ^Tagistrate: The Bookmakers'! i Association? ! Detective Sergeant Finlay: I under- ! | stand thero is such a thing under the I i nanie of Sportsmen's Association. It j j was referred to reeently in the Snpreme j Court. j Although Grant claimed to occupy the j ; premises himself, the polUe had good rcason to believe he was employed by j 1 a liookmaker operating further north, ; said Detective Sergeant Finlay.