THE BOOKMAKER NUISANCE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16986, 8 November 1920, Page 8

THE BOOKMAKER NUISANCE.

, TO THX EDITOR OF "THK r8E33." Sir,—Will you allow me, as a reader of your valuable paper, to congratulate you on publication of your sub-leader re flourishing bookmakers, oontaimftl in your issue of last Friday. I think, Sir, it is high time tho public of this city aroused themselves, and by united action compel the police to do their duty by cleaning up and putting an end to this present unlawful business. The Carnival Week is approaching, .and it brings with. Jt the usual batch of undesirables. who, with the parasites ab present here, 'hang about all day between the vicinity of the United Service hotel and tho Post Office. Touts, guessers, layers, clerks of bookmakers, and_ wasters aro to be seen any day racing is on in any part of the Dominion, congregating in Colombo street and the Square so as at times to make a passage for males and females barely possible. Surely it is high time tho heads of the police stirred themselves and put an end to the present intolerable nuisance. The same faces. are to bo seen there daily, making really an office of that part of the street. JBy ari*estlng a few as vagrants with no visible means of earning a living, tho police would, I think, be taking the first stop to clean the city of these pAraaites.— lours, etc.,

, • SPERO MELKXRA. i