A Bookmaker Fined 25.
[Per Press Association] Wellington, This Day. Iv the Magistrate's Court to day Mr Martin, R.M., fined R. W. Patterson £25 and costs, or in default, five months imprisonment, on a charge of keeping a gaming house. The Magistrate stated despite the fact that defendant bad a number of investments on Rosefeldt in the totalisator at Auckland on Boxing Day, he could not regard bis action in allowing a client to take a chance on Rosefeldt after the telegraph office was closed as a transaction between principal and agent, but it was directly a case of lajing totalisator odds. The defendant admitted that this was not an isolated transaction, but that it was the ordinary course of business practised by him on holidays.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 9 January 1894, Page 2
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126A Bookmaker Fined 25. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 209, 9 January 1894, Page 2
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