BOOKMAKER FINED £IOO FOR SECOND OFFENCE.
GAOL IF CONVICTED AGAIN. Stratford, Last Night. At the Police Court to-day, Ern- ( -.(■ ,A- Johnstone was fined £IOO for keeping a common gaining house and William OEL Lash. £25 for asks t'ing. Three persons found on the premises wei’e fined £1 each. J ihnsltoue had one previous conviction for a similar offence and in ad dr asking the court, his counsel submitted that there could be no question of imprisonment as no court had yet soon flit to imprison a 1. no|km'alker. He hnrdliv expected Ibe 'Strafford court to be the first it. Ne'w Zealand to award iropinsonment. Mr. R. W. Tate, S.M., interjected (hat it might he. Counsel said there was a case on i -Word in which a £SO fine was considered adequate for a fourth offence. In Imposing the .fines, the Magistrate said that whether or not the Stratford' court should be the first iit New Zealand to award .imprisonment for book-makers, if Johnstone appeared a third time, he would go to prison and perhaps another person, for a second offence, might, meet a. similar fate.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3948, 28 May 1929, Page 2
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185BOOKMAKER FINED £100 FOR SECOND OFFENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3948, 28 May 1929, Page 2
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