BETTING IN N.S. WALES
“EVERYBODY IN IT.'' [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. May 7, 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 6. Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on betting raids and police methods, the former Police Commissioner, W. H. Childs, declared that the ramifications of startingprice betting in New South Wales were appalling. There was a bookmakers’ agent in every big building. Even the butcher and baker were in it, and so long as the Postal Department continued to supply telephones to illegal operators, so long would the police be hamstrung in the efforts to suppress the evil. George Parker gave evidence that he had pleaded guilty to betting offences when innocent, because he was urged to do so by police agents, who hitherto had caught him. He had lost £l4OO on starting price betting. Parker added that in 1934 he suggested to Constable Mooney he would give him the price of a suit of clothes if he would shut his eyes to illegal betting. Mooney agreed, and later received five notes. The hearing was adjourned.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1936, Page 7
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