WOMEN BETTORS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1932, Page 8

WOMEN BETTORS

LADY JUSTICE’S COMMENT,

MELBOURNE, April 20. “Many women in Cuiinigwcad bet in small sums which they should be spending on bread,” said Mrs Andrews, J.P. to-day. Mrs Andrews elaborated the comment she made yesterday wlii.e sitting on the Colling wood Bench, when a man was convicted on a starting price betting charge. She sits regularly on the Bench, and is one of tile most active social workers in the Collingwood district. “Starting price betting is a menace,” Mil's Andrews said. "A lot of the money used for betting is obtained through the benevolence .of others.” Mrs Andrews is not against betting by those who can afford it. Bookmakers paid heavy ~ee« and- taxes, she said, and it was not fair to them if those who conducted unlawful betting were only lightly punished. Police Efforts. “People,” she added, “will take a risk of making money easily, whether they can afford it or not, and it is in their interests that the police and court do its best to stamp out starting prii > 1 betting,” she added. The police bear out Alls Andrews' ‘ . ” !"-i iv, v u'l'-'ks L’l •. have made six successful raids rmi obtained convictions. Most of the bets, they said to-day, were loniiiied to sixpence and Is.

One of the chief difficulties is t l ' - the bookmaker men are merely agents. The master hand, they say. is so Intremoved that it is mar (Gaily impos-sible-for the law to reach him