BOOKMAKER WHO LOST
A NEW EXPERIENCE. HAMILTON, January 20. ' “He is the first bookmaker of whom [ have heard who has lost money over his business,” the Magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson, remarked in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day, when Richard Smith, aged forty-one years, pleaded guilty to a charge of bookmaking near Stratford (Tangarakau) on June 2G, 1929. The police stated that in 1929 accused had laid odds with a policeman, and a s a result a. summons had been issued. They bad been looking for him ever since. Counsel pleaded that accused was unaware that the police had been looking for him. He had carried on hookmakjng in Taranaki for six months, losing £2oo.
In imposing a fine of £2O. the Magistrate said that had the offence been committed during the financial depression and had Smith preyed on tbe working classes, living a life ol a drone and a parasite, he would have made the penalty more severe.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1932, Page 3
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