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J KSCAI'F. OK A CONVICT. \ By Telegraph.— Press Association. Duucdin, Saturday. 'Aneiir Kostit, serving two years' for theft ;it (laniuru, escaped flrom the Otago 1 fends prison to-day. RACECOURSE SPIELERS. Wellington, Saturday. A Wellington detective, speakhg of the Caming Act, says: "It is an abortion. Formerly comparatively few bookmakers, who traded as decently as their calling permits, carried on a business that was in the essence fair and open, lint the new order of things has produced hundreds of thieves and spoilers who linve only to pay t'lo in order to lieeome legitimised racecourse thieves. Every common thief with the requisite capital is now a legitimate bookmaker, and so the racecourses of New Zealand swarm with vermin, who would not only not be permitted to lit on anv Australian racecourse, but who would lie deliarred from entering a racecourse al all, on (heir past performances.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 48, 22 March 1909, Page 2
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147GENERAL TELEGRAMS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 48, 22 March 1909, Page 2
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