Heavy Fine for Big Bookmaker

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 627, 2 April 1929, Page 1

Heavy Fine for Big Bookmaker

BUSY EASTER PERIOD OVER £1,700 IN FIVE DAYS Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. A fine of £75 was imposed at the Magistrate’s Court to-day on Arthur Law, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of using a room as a common gaming house. Two other men, Lewis Harris, a tailor, aged 48, and Lionel Zucker, an agent, aged 33, were charged with being found in the room without lawful purpose. Harris was fined £2 and Zucker £5. Chief-Detective Ward said that Law had been carrying on the business of bookmaker for many years, and was one of the largest, if not the largest, bookmaker in the Dominion. Yesterday detectives seized, in a room in Exchange Buildings occupied by accused, a large quantity of betting material. Defendant’s books showed that, over a period of five days during the Easter race meetings, he had taken bets amounting to £1,774. He had been before the Court in 1912 on two charges of publishing double charts. From the dock Law\told the magistrate, Mr. J. S. Barton, that he had nothing to say. £2O FINE AT WANGANUI / Press Association WANGANUI, To-day. Edward Nixon was fined £2O this morning at Wanganui for being the occupier of a shop used as a common gaming house.