TAKING OF BETS
TOBACCONIST FINED
Pleading guilty before-Mr.".E.D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's' Court today to a charge of using the shop of which, he was the occupier as a common gaming-house, William James, a tobacconist, aged 25, was today fined £10 and costs. Detective-Sergeant li. E. Revell, ,wh« prosecuted, said that the accused carried on the business of hairdresser and tobacconist at 63 Hobart Street,'Miramar. Yesterday Detective G. Hogan searched the premises, and discovered . a book showing that the accused had taken 19 bets on the Cbristchurch Meeting from 2s 6d upwards. -..The accused stated to Detective Hogan-that he was working on a commissior basis, and that he received" Is 6d in the £. • ' ■■ .■ "'■■ • •' •■ •■■■ Mr. C. O. Bell, who appeared for the j accused,. said that. business for . his client had been very bad. His sKpj» had been burgled some six months ago. The very small nature of the betting carried on was indicated by the fact that only 19 small bets had been taken on what was probably the biggest rac< day in the country. His client had- i previous conviction, when,a minor," iir September, 1930, for assisting, in ,th% taking of bets, but this had occurred because he was ordered todo!so-b# those above him.; •'....; - v . ~ ... .'„.
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Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 3
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207TAKING OF BETS Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 3
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