The Fielding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, MAY 14, 1894. A MODEST REQUEST.
For calm assurance commend us to turf men. We are told by a telegram from Adelaide that the local bookmakers have appealed to the Labor members in the House to assist in securing the abolition of the totalisator in South Australia, on the ground that the machine is a monopoly, and that the Labor members are opposed to monopoly. The idea of these" men claiming a sort of kinship with the Labor party is amusing from its very incongruity. The bookmakers are looked on by some, no doubt very ignorant and prejudiced persons, as a positive curse on race courses or sports grounds, and as parasites on the industrial classes. Hitherto, perhaps, for the reason of the antipathy in which they are held, their peculiar industry has not received legislative recognition as such, but, now that they have invited the Labor members of a House of Representatives to hold out " the right hand of fellowship to them " and to assist in the good work of abolishing the totalisator, which we may state, parenthetically, has ruined the alleged industry of the metallicians in New Zealand, no doubt the stigma will be removed from them.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 313, 14 May 1894, Page 2
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