BETTING POLL
CAN WE AFFORD TO LET THE LAW BE RIDICULED? Today there exists in this country an extraordinary state of affairs. In New Zealand it is xilegal to practise bookmaking, and yet no country is more thoroughly riddled with bokomakers and their agents than this Dominion of ours. There is a grave social danger when thousan-ds of otherwise lawabiding citizens bet off-course with fchese bookmakers, break the law and see nothing wrong in doing so. What is the answer to the problem?
For over 40 years bookmakers have been prohibited, and yet the underground system still flourishes. The answer surely is to adopt the recommendation made by the Royal Gaming Commission and to provide legal facilities for betting away from the eourse in a decently controlled and law-abiding manner. The Scheme recommended to the Government by the Royal Commission offers just such familities. Do you prefer that off-course betting should be under a legal and properly controlled system or u'nder a system involying a continued and flagrant breaking of the law? This is the issue on which you will vote jn Polling Day, March 9th. A vote "FOR THE PROPOSAL" is a vote to remove, a blot on our National life. It is a vote for law and order. — [Issued by authority N.Z. Racing and Trotting Conferences.]
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1949, Page 4
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218BETTING POLL Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1949, Page 4
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