Forged Tote Tickets At Pukekohe Meeting
' • AUCKLAND, Marcli 7. Forged totalisqtor ticketa were presented and eaahed'at the Franklin Raeing Club's meeting at Pukekohe on Saturday afternoon. A man was detain.ed after the last raee and ■. later arrested on a charge of attempted theft. The forged tickets were all -.£1 tickets for a win. The fraud was not diseovered until after the tbird race, the Waiuku Haek Handicap. Eight forged tickets on the winrier, Tamarakau, were presented and £67 was paid to the person who handed them in at the totalisator pav-out window. The frauds were discovered when a check was being made. In each case the forgeries were extremely difficult to deteet. The forged tickets were genuine tickets belonging to the totalisator proprietors and they came into the -hands of someone who staniped the correct code word on them. The different code words are known only to some totalisator ofScialp oefore they are issued. The code word is changed for each race. The forged tickets appeared to be genuine and thtonly way in which they could be detected was by a defect in the spacing of the code word.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1949, Page 5
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189Forged Tote Tickets At Pukekohe Meeting Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1949, Page 5
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