FINE OF £350 FOR BOOKMAKING
“One Of Biggest Firms In South Island” By Telegraph—Press Association. DUNEDIN, January 25. “This is one of the biggest firms operating in the South Island,” commented Chief-Detective Holmes on the activities of a bookmaking business conducted, by Robert David Donaldson, aged 31, who admitted a charge of bookmaking in the Magistrates’ Court this morning. The case was a sequel to a raid carried out on Donaldson's premises in South Dunedin on January 19. which was the first day of the Wellington Cup meeting. Also charged with Donaldson were Ferguson Nicol, aged 20, John Charles Toomey, aged 35, and Alexander Malcolm Barron, who admitted assisting in thc management of a gaminghouse. * Chief-Detective Holmes produced a sheet which detailed the extent of the business carried out by the firm during Christmas week. ’This statement showed that the value of bets takeu totalled £l5BB. There was also an account for £lO5 produced for a ton of paper ordered by the firm for bookmaking purposes. Though only half the first day of the Wellington races had been completed, the police found that 650 bets, valued at £-139, had been taken. Donaldson was lined £350 and his assistants £l5, £lO and £5 respectively.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 8
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203FINE OF £350 FOR BOOKMAKING Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 104, 26 January 1939, Page 8
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