£1588 IN BETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 20, 25 January 1939, Page 13

£1588 IN BETS.

AND £1470 PROFIT. BOOKMAKING FIRM. CHRISTMAS WEEK BUSINESS. THEW CAME POLICE RAID. (By A*******,.) DUNKDIX. this dav. Evidence which .Wed that in Christ ma* week a bookmaking firm accepted M,.totalling £1588 for a total profit f £14.0 wa s fflve „ in tne Po]i ,. e Court tins morning. "ThiM In r,„ O 0 f the ~ operating in the South I,? al „l •• n.«,M tliief Detective HoSo n f °the ;;'»"« of a book-making busing„,„? dm-teit liy Robert David Donaldson (3 wl,o adnntted a charge of booku ,k!i g ho ease was the „c ql ,el to a raid carried "lit on DrfnaUW* premise* i„ South Dunedin on January 10, which v«, H-tdayofthe Wellington Cubing -Mho charged with Donaldson were Ferguson Nicol (20), John Ch * r e £ Poomey (3.5, an d Alexander Ma com Harrow, who admitted assisting fi the management of a gami „g hou £ the Mr Holmei produced a sheet which detailed the extent of the business car week"''.-./ V". Mrm ' l,,rin S "•**»- week. Thm statement showed that the value of beta taken totalled £1588 fZ a total profit of £1470. There was „o an account or £105 produced for a "on of paper ordered by the firm for bookmaking purposes. Though only half tit «»t day of the Wellington races hid been completed, the police found Mat S bet., valued at £430, had been taken. Donaldson was fined f3.50 and his ■Mutants M, £10 a „ d £.-, reepeeVively I