A HEAVY IMPOST
DUNEDiN BOOKMAKER
EMPLOYEES ALSO FINED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, August 10,
This afternoon Detective-Sergeant Hall and .Detectives.Russell, Marsh, and Marshall' raided ' premises in Forbury Crescent, with the result that, later in the afternoon, John Phillip Donaldson, John Charles Tooman, and Alexander Malcolm Barron were charged before Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., in the Magistrate" Court, with having carried on the business of bookmakers.
Evidence was that Donaldson, who had been previously fined for a similar offence, had been operating in a big way, a considerable amount of betting material being found on the premises. Donaldson was fined £350, and the other two defendants, who were employees, £25 each.;
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1939, Page 15
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111A HEAVY IMPOST Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1939, Page 15
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