BOOKMAKERS’ LICENSES
CONDITIONS IMPOSED IN AUCKLAND. Press Association. AUCKLAND, December 12. Tho conditions imposed by tho ■ Auckland Racing Club concerning tho issue of licenses to bookmakers at tho summer meeting yvoro discussed at a meeting of tho Auckland Bookmakers’ - Association. As a result tho folloyving telegram yvas despatched to the Attorney-General: “A deputation of bookmakers yvaited on the, Auckland Racing Club last night, tlio ■ committee of yvliich expressed their intention of dealing fairily yvith tho bookmakers. To our surprise the club lias framed conditions yvliich yve are legally- advised are beyond the powers of the committee to enforce. The bookmakers are anxious to avoid any- unploasantness or anything appertaining to disorder at tho forthcoming meeting, and ask your intervention towards the accomplishment of this desirable end. A clerk is charged £5. A small strip of ground is sst apart only for betting. A bookmaker under the club’s rule 6 will probably have betting ten minutes before theHime' specified in the Act.”
The f(Wowing reply was received: “I hay-© yvirod the secretary of the Auckland Racing Chib, informing him of tho purport of your telegram, and asking for a, reply. Will wire you later.—(Signed) J. G Findlay.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2062, 13 December 1907, Page 1
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