BOOKMAKING IN HOTELS.
LICENSEES RUNNING RISKS. COMMITTEE’S WARNING. Recent prosecutions against bookmakers who carried on their business in city hotels were referred to at the annual meeting of the Wellington District Licensing committee on Monday. “The police report shows that during the last quarter bookmakers were convicted for doing business in three hotels, and barmen in three hotels were fined for bookmaking” remarked the chairman, Mr W. G. Riddell. “ There is not sufficient evidence to show that the bookmaking was carried on with the knowledge of the licensees, but it is obvious that if bookmaking is carried on in any hotel there must be a lack of proper supervision, and it will be well for the licensees concerned to see that the practice is prevented in their hotels. If proof can be brought that bookmaking is carried on knowingly they render themselves liable under the Gaming Act. Th offence is regarded by the committee with disfavour, and will certainly handicap the licensees it) future applications.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5137, 10 June 1927, Page 1
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165BOOKMAKING IN HOTELS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5137, 10 June 1927, Page 1
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