BOOKMAKER’S £l00 FINE.
IMPRISONMENT IN FUTURE. • By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. James Paterson, recently charged with carrying on business as a bookmaker, and in whose case two juries at the Supreme Court disagreed, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with using the Star Private Hotel as a common gaming house, and trespassing on the Hutt Park racecourse on January 23 last, he being a prohibited person under the Gaming Act. In fining Paterson £lOO with costs on the first charge and £2 with costs on the second, the magistrate (Mr? Hunt), said: “He has had two starts and two wins, and he cannot complain this time.” The magistrate added that the facts adduced did not convince the jury, but bad convinced him. This was the last fine he was going “to impose on bookmakers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1921, Page 5
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136BOOKMAKER’S £l00 FINE. Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1921, Page 5
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