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NEW ZEALAND GAMING LAWS STATEMENT BY MAGISTRATE. STIMULUS TO ADOLESCENT CRIME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Dealing with a bookmaking prosecution today, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., said the open flouting of the Gaming laws had probably as much to do with the increase of adolescent crime a; anything in New Zealand. Young people saw such a serious offence as bookmaking carried on with impunity and they came to think it clever to flout the law.
The defendant was Ralph Ellis Thompson, a barman, aged 58, who pleaded guilty.
"Probably the Courts have not done their duty,” said Mr Luxford, “and fines have been imposed year after year which have been nothing more than licence fees to the bookmakers. I do, not propose suddenly to change what has been almost an established practice in inflicting fines in these
A fine was imposed of £2O and costs. It was stated that there was no evidence that defendant had been betting in anything but a small way and no evidence that he had been betting for a lengthy period. Eight years ago he was a bookmaker and was heavily fined, but afterwards, said his counsel, he lived within the law.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 8
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