BOOKMAKERS' TELEPHONES
PREMATURE ORDER FOR DISCONNECTION. Some sixty or seventy telephones installed in the premises of bookmakers or premises reputed to be used by bookmakers were cut off for-several hours on Wednesday. They were subsequently reconnected, and no further action haa yet been taken. The Post and Telegraph regulations, as most people are aware, provided that the telephones as well as tho telegraphs are not to bo used for betting purposes. Tho disconnecting of the telephones,, it i's stated, was undertaken prematurely without Ministerial sanction. There are believed to be GO or 70 telephones used by Ijookmakers. wholly or in part, in Wellington." The authorities have been collecting information on the subject for some time, and it is intended that in tho first instance a. warning shall be issued to the subscribers concerned that the telephones will be disconnected if they, are used for betting purposes. If the warning is not effective, then the telephones will be cut off. This is to apply all over New Zealand.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 35, 5 November 1920, Page 6
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167BOOKMAKERS' TELEPHONES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 35, 5 November 1920, Page 6
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