BILLIARD SALOONS AND THEIR PROFITS
Sir,—l notice in your newspaper, dated July 23, that some person has started letter-writing re "the evil of billiard tables," and especially mentions Wairoa, H. 8., as an example. The writer I refer 'to, to my mind, is some person who ovidently imagines a lot. As everyone does and should know it is not possible for billiard rooms to be any more than paying their way after three years of war. At the present time 1 know that every billiard room in Wairoa could be bought, so if "War Economist" knows there is such big • profits,. perhaps he may be persuaded to,buy one, u not more, of them instead of trying to handicap people who ore struggling tor an honest living. "TTar Economist' says that the billiard tables take on an average of JE3 per table per day, or the huge sura of .£12,600 for fourteen tables per year. ," et mo enlighten him by telling him. that the fourteen tables do not average more than 15s. per day pur table, or more than =£3000 per year tor fourteen tables. Now, sir, if my figures, are below the yearly takings of the lourtecii tables, then t will give £W to tub Wairoa. Hospital on condition that it I am right he will give tho JSO. I. hopb that when ho writes again on any suniect that ho will get the true tacts pt tho case and not make himsoW so ridiculous with Buch figures -as ho <l«oles. As for the so-called gambling that yViii* Economist" talks ot over tho MhavA tables, perhaps he knows tetter than tho most learned judges wo have in this country when ho calls it gambling. Now, sir, !• hope, whether the writer s v.anw be Johnson, Brown, or Smith, that in future he will not intcnero with any business of which he is abso iitely ignorant. Thanking you for allowing me space in your am^etc., Wniroa, July 31, 10)7.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 7
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327BILLIARD SALOONS AND THEIR PROFITS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 7
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