HEAVY FINES
INFLICTED ON BOOKMAKERS.
Christchurch. This Day. Louis Curtis and William Pollock, both of Dunedin, were charged at the .Magistrate’s Court to-day wilh making bets on hcened premises, and distributing cards without the name and address of the printer attached. The fads- were admitted. Air Al’Carthy, S.M., imposed fines on Cur! is totalling £206, and on Pollock £216.
Air M’Carthy said that bookmakers, notwithstanding the gradual in-crea-e in lines, had gone on defying the law, and treated the fines as mere licenses. It was the Court’s duty to see that the law was not defied with impunity, and to ascertain who was the strongest factor in the Dominion —Parliament or the bookmaker. He indicted the maximum penalty, and isued a warning that in future cases imprisonment would follow conviction. :
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2063, 4 December 1919, Page 2
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130HEAVY FINES Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2063, 4 December 1919, Page 2
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