GAMING CHARGES
HAIRDRESSER AND BARMAN FINED.
AN OCCUPATION ENFORCED?
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day.
Pleading guilt yto charges of bookmaking, William John O’Donnell, a hairdresser, and Raymond John Kendall; a batman, each were fined £25 by the Magistrate, Mr J. L. Stout. Counsel fol - O’Donnell said: “In the suburbs it has come to this that a man can’t very well hold together the business of hairdresser and tobacconist unless he is prepared to oblige customers by taking bets for them. De-, fendant was only an agent.” In Kendall’s case the police said defendant had stated that he had been bookmaking for five weeks on behalf of a bookmaker from whom he received Is 6d in the pound.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 6
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118GAMING CHARGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 September 1939, Page 6
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