BOOKMAKERS FINED
COMMENT BY COUNSEL MUST OBLIGE CUSTOMERS (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Monday Pleading guilty to charges of bookmaking, William John O’Donnell, hairdresser, and Raymond John Kendall, barman, were each fined i/25 by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. Counsel for O’Donnell said: “In the suburbs it has come to this, that a man can’t very-well-hold together the business of a hairdresser and tobacconist unless he is prepared to oblige customers by taking bets for them. Defendant was only an agent.” in Kendall’s case the police said he stated he had been bookmaking for five weeks’ on behalf of a bookmaker, from whom he received is 5d in the £.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 9
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108BOOKMAKERS FINED Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20912, 18 September 1939, Page 9
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