HEAVY FINES
BOOKMAKING CHARGES Fines totalling £770 were imposed in the Magistrate's Court in Palmerston North by Mr. 11. P. Lowry. S.M., on charges under the Gaming Act. Bruce John Clarke pleaded guilty to publishing a doubles chart at Wanganui on May 28. and carrying on ■ bookmaking • 3t, Palmerston North. On the former charge he Was fined £2O. and on the latter £250. I Harry McDonald Essex and Dario Lahchoto Giorgi were each charged with bookmaking. The court held the evidence showed that defendants were acting in a larger way than some others, and imposed a fine ol £250 in each case. Counsel .for defendants pleaded that, while on one hand ithe State * attempted to discourage monopolies, yet in respect to betting it attempted to make its own monopoly and' protect it. The magistrate replied that no one suggested the right, of any person to establish himself as a mail carrier in opposition .to the Post Office,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 2
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157HEAVY FINES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20875, 29 August 1942, Page 2
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