POLICE REVELATIONS.
PROFIT IN BOOKAIAKING
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 25
“This is one of the biggest firms operating in the South Island,” commenced Cluef-Detective Holmes on the activities of a booknniking business conducted by Robert David Donaldson, aged 31, who admitted a charge of bookmaking in the Police Court this morning. The case was the sequel to a raid carried out on Donaldson’s premises in South Dunedin on January 19, which was the first day of the Wellington Cup meeting. Also charged with Donaldson were Ferguson Nicol, aged 20, John Charles Toomey, aged 35, and Alexander Malcolm Barron, who admitted assisting in the management of a gaminghouse Mr Holmes produced a sheet which detailed the extent of the business carried out by the firm during Christmas week. This statement showed that the value of bets taken totalled £ISBB and the total profit was £1470. There was also ail account, for £lO5 produced for a ton of paper ordered by the firm for bookmaking purposes. Though only half the first day of the Wellington races had been completed, the police found that 650 bets valued at £439 had been taken. Donaldson was fined £350 and his assistants £ls, £lO and £5, respectively.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 10
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202POLICE REVELATIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 48, 25 January 1939, Page 10
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