FORCED TOTE TICKETS
Cash Discrepancy at Greymouth
POLICE MAKE ARREST (P.A.) GREYMOUTH, This Day. A complaint from the totalisator authorities at Greymouth that tickets which did not appear to • be genuine had been cashed at the .Grey-Westland Trotting Club’s meeting on Monday, the Greymouth police made an arrest within three hours yesterday afternoon. The arrested man, Edgar George Boucher Honey, aged 29, married, a railway surfaceman, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning on a charge of forging one -totalisator ticket. , “This man was arrested only yesterday by Detective Stewart and myself,” said Detective-Sergeant Thomson, applying for a remand until April 8. “There are a number of charges pending in regard to forged tickets.” The remand was granted, bail being allowed. It is understood that the suspicions of the totalisator authorities were aroused after one particular race when, on balancing, a cash discrepancy of almost £SO was disclosed. All of the tickets were then closely scrutinised, and a number came under suspicion.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 145, 1 April 1948, Page 6
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