BOOKMAKERS FINED
SEQUEL TO RAID BY POLICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, January 18. Raided by the police on January 2, at the height of the holiday racing, Joseph William Links and George William Martella pleaded guilty in the Magistrates’ Court today to carrying on the business of bookmaking. It was stated that Martella was an agent for Links. When the premises wei’e rafcted the police found that he had just taken a £lO bet. Links told Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., that he was engaged in bookmaking because ill-health precluded him following any other occupation. Each was fined £4O. Links was allowed a month to pay and Martella two months.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 2
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110BOOKMAKERS FINED Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 2
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