RACING TAXATION

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1930, Page 8

RACING TAXATION

REPLY TO MR POLSON

OHRJjSTOHUR CH, May 30

A reply to the suggestion of Mr W. .* Poison, M.P., that a further 5 per cent should be added to the totalisatoi tax was made at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club, yesterday by the chairman, Mr H. A. Knight. Mr Knight said that members would notice irom the oalance-sheet that during this year the club had paid in j taxation £13,6-19, the public had paid . £21,600 and the owners £lBlO He had j noticed that Mr Poison was advocating a further 5 per cent increase in totalisator tax, but that was simply killing the goose that laid the golden egg. There was always a limit beyong which they could not go and that limit had already been reached, if not passed. In referring to the proposal to enable money to be telegraphed to the totalisator, tne chairman said that the Pacing Conference had considered it inadvisable to place it before Parliament last year, but' it was hope! that it would be given favourable eonsideraton this year. It was fairly obvious that it would increase the revenue of all the clubs and would give the Government more revenue. A great deal of the money which would be telegraphed to the totalisator now ivent to bookmakers.