Bookmaker's Clients Were Getting Too Good
NEW PLYMOUTH, July 18? When tl?e poiice visited tlie hpniei in Richmond St'reet, N ew ' . piym o'uth,, of Geo'rge Ivoe?,, a married laboui'er, son Saturday afternooh they'-. found' -eviden.ee tliat he had been. taking. befa pyer tlie telephone., on' the. -Trentham' and Avondale races. , As a .result'ke \tas iined £50 this liiorning -cby t(ie"Ma^istrate (Mr. W. "H. Woodwardj.'' . ' , Ivoea admitted that he liad'" been bookmaking for three or four years as an agent for a man whose name lie would not disclose. One betting sheet 'sliowed that on July 9, -when £S9 was taken, there was a pay-out of £119. Ivoea 's principal had written on the sheet: "Getting too good. For an earlier meeting £21 was taken in bets and £00 8s was paid out.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1949, Page 3
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