LARGE-SCALE BETTING
POLICE RAID HOUSE
THREE DUNEDIN MEN FINED
(By .Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Bets totalling £1099 on the Wingatui,' New"Brighton, and Auckland races were, it was alleged in the Police Court, taken'on Saturday by three men located in a poorly-furnished house in a back street of the seaside suburb of Ravensbourne. .On a charge of keeping, a. gaming-house, Robert Dayid Donaldson was fined £60. John Philip, .Donaldson,."! his brother, ,was fined £30 for assisting him, and William .Ernest.<Jraham, their clerk was fined1 £2,
The police stated that the Donaldsons were brothers in partnership as bookmakers. The police visited a house in a back street and found the accused busy taking bets over-two telephones, which had been installed under fictitious names. The house was evidently used by the defendants only during race, meetings. At other times a woman,; who lived in the back rooms occupied the premises as a housekeeper.
The police alleged that both men had beeii. operating on a large scale for two years, having agents in almost every district from Christchurch to Bluff.
LARGE-SCALE BETTING
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 10
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