TRYING TO SWEEP THE BETTING TIDE BACK.
Tke New Soutb Wales authorities are gravely coneerned over tbe starting-priee betting evil, and are considering the question of bringing down drastic legislation, similar to tbat passed in Queensland recently, with the objeet of trying to stamp it out. But the ramifications of starting-price betting throughout the State are such that it is a difficult . fc) see how it can be eompletely wiped out. Penalties under the exLsting betting laws already inelude imprisonment, bnt there is talk of making them more drastie. Carfcoonists in the Sydney Press, in happy tilts at the futility of trying to wipe out start-ing-price betting, have pictured off enders in gaol furtively calling and accepting the odds on "Dogsbody," or some other animal at a suburban race meeting, with plugs of tobaeco as the stakes.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 4
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