DUNEDIN DISCOVERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 243, 14 October 1935, Page 9

DUNEDIN DISCOVERY.

r!NE OF £60 IMPOSED. "CHRISTCTIURCTI TO BLUFF." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Bets, totalling £1090, on races at I Wingatui, New Brighton and Auckland, it was alleged in the Police Court, were taken on Saturday by three men in a poorly-furnished house in a back street of flie seaside suburb of Kavcnsbourne. On a ('barge of keeping a gaming house, Robert David Donaldson was fined £00. John Philip Donaldson, his brother, was fined £30 for assisting him, and William Ernest Graham, their clerk, £2. The police stated that the Donaldson brothers were in partnership as bookmakers. The police found accused busy taking bets over two telephones | which had been installed under fictitious names. The house was evidently used by defendants only during race meetings. At other times a woman who lived in the back rooms occupied the premises as housekeeper. The police alleged that both men had been operating on a large scale for two years and had agents in almost every district from Christchurch to Bluff.