BOOKMAKERS FINED.
CHARGES AT AUCKLAND AND WELLING TON. AUCKLAND, April 19. At the Police Court, diaries' Oakley Clarke was fined £SO or throe months' imprisonment lor carrying on business as a bookmaker. He gave a. man a valueless cheque in settlement of a double of 83 to one. It was stated Clarice had sera-red a position in Cliristchureh and had decided to give up bookmaking. WELLINGTON, April 19-. As a result of two police raids on Saturday, George William Wood, &S. and John Watson Wood, 44, brothers, both butchers, was charged to-day with conducting gaming houses. The police stated they found that the former had taken 128 bets in two days and the latter 180 in a longer period of amounts from 2/6 to £1 Counsel for the defence asserted that these men were not big enough to he alloAved to infringe on the monopoly of this form of gambling. Each was fined £35. On a further charge of publishing double charts, they were ordered to pay costs.
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Shannon News, 20 April 1926, Page 4
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168BOOKMAKERS FINED. Shannon News, 20 April 1926, Page 4
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