A SPORTIVE NEWSPAPER MAN.
•IS ABLE TO SECURE BETS. BUT MET WITH SOME REFUSALS Press Association. • ' CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 4. A representative) of a local newspaper 'who' set out to-day to ascertain whether street betting, was l.e ing carried r on in : Christchurch new. and if so to. what extent, succeeded in making one bet with a bookmaker S direct and two others with agents of Two of the bets were made on the’ street and the other m an hotel, ami'the investigator feh ■ convinced that he could have made many more bets had he continued his quest further. Some of the bookmakers approached said that -they were waiting for licenses and did not want to bet. ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2055, 5 December 1907, Page 3
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116A SPORTIVE NEWSPAPER MAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2055, 5 December 1907, Page 3
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