BOOKMAKERS FINED
PENALTIES OF £25 EACH
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
Pleading guilty to charges oC bookmalting, William John O’Donnell, a hairdresser, and Raymond John Kendall, a barman, were each lined £25 in the Police Court yesterday, by the Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout. Counsel for O'Donnell said: In the suburbs it has come to this—that a man cannot very well hold together the business of hairdresser and tobacconist unless he is prepared to oblige customers by taking bets for them.” The defendant was only an agent. In Kendall’s case, the police said the defendant stated he had been bookmaking for five weeks on,.behalf of a bookmaker from whom he received Is 5d in the £l.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20046, 19 September 1939, Page 12
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