BOOKIES' BOODLE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 1

BOOKIES' BOODLE.

Two recent cases in Sydney indicate (writes the Sydney correspondent of the Post) that while other people find it very difficult to get hold of sovereigns awl half-sovereigns, bookmakers aro able to make considerable collections of gold coin, but, shrewd as they are, do not mataage to keep it. A few days ago a book-maker reported that he had nearly, £600 in gold, and. fearing housebreakers, carried the money about in ' his motor car when absent from home. But on a run through North Sydney in his car the light .board which formed the floor of tho rear compartment of the car, where his bag of gold reposed, broke through, and the bag fell out.