BETTING ON COURSE
BOOKMAKER FINED £SO ELLERSLIE INCIDENT (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A Whangarei miner, who set up business in opposition to the totalisator at Ellerslie yesterday and was quickly detected, was fined £SO and costs for carrying on the business of bookmaker by the magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, in the Police Court to-day. He was Owen Trewheela, aged 32, and he pleaded guilty. The police evidence was that Trewheela was seen taking bets and paying out in the derby enclosure at Ellerslie. When accosted he stated he was taking bets for another man, but he was seen to take all the bets and pay out himself. He also said" he had “never been at the game before.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 11
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122BETTING ON COURSE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20131, 28 December 1939, Page 11
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