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Barman Raided In Hotel
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WELLINGTON^ Tbis Day. Edward McRae, a barman, was fined £30 and costs for using the bar of tbe Oecidental Hotel as a common ganxing house. The police stated that a notebopk showed that defendant had taken £5 in bets on the day of tbe raid and be had £43 5/11 m his possession. Counsol said that defendant had been a barman for only three months. It would be proved tbat £20 of tbe money was his own ana was fnt.ended to be sent to England to help his people; a further £6 was being lcept for two saxlora who had been sentenced to short terms Of imprisonment; £5 10/- bolonged to a bookmaker and tlie i-einaining £11" 8/was his own aionoy, Hu wus merely «. colleeting mediuni aud wOuId have to pay his own fine.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 108, 24 May 1937, Page 7
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