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HOOK MAK ERS’ STATUS. HA HR IST Ell A NSW ERS CM lEF JUSTICE. (By Telegraph — Per Press Association) DUNEDIN, August 1. The advice of Chief Justice Myers to Magistrates on the method of dealing with bookmakers was commented on here to-day by a leading barrister wlm expressed the, opinion that it was scarcely proper for a Judge to take the responsibility of directing other judicial officers in their duty. The barrister expressed the view that the bookmakers should he licensed, thus enabling control to be exorcised over the typo of man following 11h> business, and ho referred t-o the late Judge Sims’s remarks when summing no in 192 b, in a hookmaking charge, when he characterised the Act as a hypocritical one, in view of the State’s own betting machine, and said the Act was passed simply to protect the State’s betting monopoly.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1931, Page 6
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147LICENSE OR GAOL Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1931, Page 6
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