BETTING IN SYDNEY

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1936, Page 7

BETTING IN SYDNEY

WELL ORGANISED BUSINESS.

[by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, April 17. Sergeant Keefe, giving evidence before the Betting Commission ’to-day, said that Telesports Ltd., which occupied a city office had about ninety city and suburban, and twenty-five country subscribers connected by silent telephones, eighty of whom were hotelkeepers, who received prompt information in regard to starters, scratchings, the betting market,’ and occasionally, the post positions of horses, and also the results and- starting prices of the placed horses. City and suburban subscribers paid 10/- per day. Eaton’s Telegram Agency carried on a similar traffic in a similar way. Police-Sergeant William Jennings next gave evidence. He denied Sanders’ and Ingrams’ allegations of bribery. He declared that he had never been reprimanded or punished by superior officers for any offence. On the contrary, he had Ijeen comfnended for carrying out his duty with discretion; He produced his bank book, and explained that money tor ’a new car he bought last year came from an overdraft against his life assurance. The Commission adjourned.