HEAVY FINES FOR BOOKMAKERS.
Auckland, Last Night. Two heavy tines, one of £4OO and another of £3OO were imposed in the Police Court to-day by the Magistrate, Mr Poynton, S.M., on men charged with bookmaking. William George Brown, aged 44 pleaded guilty. Mr M. Fear, for the said the latter had a business and was not doing too well. He had never been before the Court before. Chief-Detective Cummings, in reply to counsel, said he had had no complaints about Brown’s bookmaking activities. He had known accused for ten years and apart from his being a bookmaker, accused had a good character.' Brown was lined £3OO in default twelve months’ imprisonment.
Joseph George Rees, aged 49, who had been convicted before, was fined £4OO in default eighteen months. In each case a week was allowed in which to pay the fine.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2743, 10 June 1924, Page 3
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141HEAVY FINES FOR BOOKMAKERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2743, 10 June 1924, Page 3
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