RACING CONVERSATIONS
POST OFFICE INQUIRY INCIDENTS AT AUCKLAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Conversations on a telephone used by the operating staff of the 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 telegraph staff by two inspectors of the department who were summoned from Wellington. The line was tapped by laying a wire under a carpet, and officers of the department took a note ofi all conversations bearing on betting or tips. Those who used the telephone were confronted with notes of these conversations. in some cases employees sought legal advice. . 1L is a rule of the department that any officer refusing to supply information to his superior may be suspended. Betting • conversations on telegraph telephones by officers on duty are strictly
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 4
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139RACING CONVERSATIONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 4
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