BOOKMAKERS FINED
SEQUEL TO RAID. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, September 10. Two charges of bookmaking arising out of a raid by the police on the Saturday of the Wanganui race meeting were heard by Mr Miller, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court, Hastings, today, when William Gordon Robertson was fined £6O, with 10s costs, and Michael Victor Johnson was fined £25, with 10s costs. Both pleaded guilty. The police said that Johnson was absent in Wellington when they called. However, he went to the police station and freely admitted his transactions. Books showed that Johnson had taken £2l in bets. The police did not consider he operated in a big way, and it was the first time he had come under the notice of the police. Robertson's room, said Detective Campin, had been visited at 11.30 a.m.. and up to that time £25 had been taken in 56 bets. Robertson had been before the Court in 1930 and 1936 on similar charges.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 3
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