HIS LIVING GONE.
A jBOOKMAICER IN COURT. "I was a bookmaker, but since the passing of the Gaming Act I have no occupation," said a judgment debtor ill the -Magistrate's Court yesterday morning. "How have you been living, then?' ho was ashed. He repliod that he had been living 011 his wife, llis wife and daughter wero both working in town. Getting on to the subject of his means of malcinsr a livelihood again, he declared that the Gaming Act had taken his living awav from him. Ho said that ho had been trying to get. something to do ever, since, but had not succeeded, and had to live ou the earnings of those whom he had alluded to. The magistrate told him that he had better "begin again." No order for payment of tho debt was made.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 6
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138HIS LIVING GONE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1209, 18 August 1911, Page 6
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