Public Opinion
OFF-COURSE BETTING
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Sir,—l notice a correspondent in a city paper says that, at the forthcoming Gaming poll “voters who do not approve of betting or bookmakers cannot vote for or against the measure, and abstention could be taken as tacit agreement with existing conditions.” Might I point out that the question to be settled by the referendum is not whether or not 'gambling is desirable? It is rather to decide whether legal off-course betting is preferable to the present widespread system of illegal betting under which the bookmaker makes the rules and the profits. If we regard gambling as an evil, then we can at least cast a vote on this occasion to say whether we consider illegal gambling a worse evil than gambling controlled by rules we can at least expect to be fair. Yours etc., SEMI-WOWSER.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 41, 14 January 1949, Page 4
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167Public Opinion OFF-COURSE BETTING Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 41, 14 January 1949, Page 4
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