TWO-UP SCHOOL RAIDED
Police Campaign Against Betting (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, June 19. Melbourne police broke down a door with a six-foot battering ram in a raid on a big two-up school last night. The players rushed for the back door/ and several went through the windows. , . . ' - .
The police made 17 arrests. The game was being played in a disused storeroom in Racecourse road, Flemington. A large sum of money found n the room was seized.
' In the biggest drive against illegal country bookmakers since the police against betting began, 30 Melbourne special duties gaming squad police swooped on six Gippsland towns. They made simultaneous raids in Yalloum, Moe, Traralgon. Morwell, Warragul, and Drouin, and took the names of more than a dozen people.
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Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 21
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