BOOKMAKER FINED £2OO
POLICE CASTIGATION GIRL CLERKS CHARGED (Par Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., this day. “This man is in a big way. We make no excuse for saying 'he is easily the biggest in Manawatu and one of the biggest ip New Zealand. He has agencies in every centre of consequence in Manawatu, North Wairarapa and Rangitikei, even as far as Hastings. “His business .Is carried on quite openly—we say brazenly. This man flaunts the law. He has no regard .for it at all or he would not be allowing young girls to break it every hour of the day. It is one of the worst cases of bookmaking I have met with in my 23 years in the police force. He has not‘even the decency to employ male attendants to answer the telephone.”
This comment was made by Detec-tive-Sergeant 1 Meiklejohn in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when Charles Joseph Williams was charged with carrying on the business of a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty and was fined £2OO.
Three young women clerks on Williams’ premises were each fined £5 on charges of being found in premises used for bookmaking. Harry MacDonald Essez, charged with using his premises as a common gami'ng hous-e was ifined £75, the magistrate saying that the volume of business showed the defendant was in a fairly big way. Stanley Frank Lincoln, a butcher, charged with using premises as a common gaming house was fined £25. According to a police statement, he was an agent for Williams.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20016, 15 August 1939, Page 7
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