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driven to tipstering WOMAN FINED £lO ACCEPTED bets to swell INCOME Business being so bad in the ..hscco line, Ellen Walker turned h°.r attention to bookmaking and consequently appeared at the Police Court this morning. a-alker, who keeps a. shop opposite „ Epsom Tram Barn, was charged keeping the promises known as Regent Tobacconists, situated at ;J3 Manuka u Road, as a common rejaing house. ” Mr. R- A - y,n K cr entered a pica o£ niilty °n her behalf. According to Chief-Betective HamWalker had been making books wing the last few months. She had ■wen three or four wagers ranging 7T m £lO to live shillings from a :r table. "Mostly doubles . and so ” gal,! Mr. Hammond. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: Is she only an Hammond: We really could not Singer explained that the , bacco war was making it hard for mall shopkeepers. Mrs. Walker had ,It the pinch. Her husband had gone t to work. ishe had been tempted !„ d 0 a little mild tipstering. \ fine of £lO was imposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 486, 16 October 1928, Page 13
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173FOURTH edition Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 486, 16 October 1928, Page 13
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