FINED £50 AND COSTS
Bookmaker’s Three Telephones Pleadiug guilty in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, to a charge of carrying ou the business of bookmaking, Albert John Collins, a barman, aged 45, was fined £5O and costs. The police evidence was that defendant occupied a room in a block of flats in the city, and had -been carrying on the business of bookmaker there. Three telephones were installed in the room. Mr. J. A. Scott said that Collins had been unable to work full time because of physical disability and had given way to temptation and acted as agent for a bookmaker. “If he’s got three telephones he ran t be in a very small way,” said Mr. Stout, S.M., in inflicting the fine.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 262, 4 August 1942, Page 6
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124FINED £50 AND COSTS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 262, 4 August 1942, Page 6
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