BETTING TALKS
TELEGRAPH OFFICERS IMPEACHED. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 5. Conversations on a telephone used by the opetrating staff of tjie Auckland Telegraph Office, during the Takapuna Jockey Club’s meeting on Saturday and Monday, have resulted in the interrogation of over 40 members of the teleghaph staff ■by two Inspectors of the Department,- who were summoned , from Wellington. The line was tapped by laying a ; wire under a carpet'and the officers of i the department.took a. note of all con- ; versations bearing 6n betting or-tipsi: These who used the telephone were con- , fronted w,ith the. notes of these eon J *, versations,. ; Jn some cases employees!' sought legal advice'.Vl! iff! : It is the riilfe Of.. thei Department j that ahy v officer l srefusing; to supplyinformation ,to'a "superior: may be sus*i. pended. .Betting;conversations^on telephones by officers on duty" are; strictly forbidden.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1929, Page 5
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