BOOKMAKING CHARGES
SEVEN PERSONS FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAWERA, June 15. Declining to listen to one counsel's submission that a law which did not have the support of public opinion would never be obeyed, Mr A. Coleman, S.M., in the Hawera Court, imposed fines totalling £273 on seyen persons who pleaded guilty to charges of bookmaking, keeping common gaming houses, assisting in keeping such premises, and being found thereon. Defendants were: William Elder, convicted and fined £125 for bookmaking in Hawera on June 3, and £25 for keeping a common gaming house;, lan Joseph Crawford, convicted and fined £25 for bookmaking, and £lO for assisting in keeping a gaming house; Hugh Henry Lavery, convicted and fined £3O and £lO on the same charges as against Elder; Alexander Creighton Lobban, convicted and fined £2O and £lO on the same charges as against Crawford; Albert Holt, convicted and fined £l5 for bookmaking; Revell Ammon and Charles Henry Norman Shirley, convicted and fined £1 10s each for being found in gaming house premises.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 9
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170BOOKMAKING CHARGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1939, Page 9
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