ILLEGAL BETTING
“IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP IT.”
POLICE COMMISSIONER’S VIEW
The Commissioner of Police for South Australia, Brigadier-General R. L. Leane, told the Betting Commission, which b‘egan its investigations recently, that with the present Licensing and Lottery and Gaming Acte it was almost impossible to suppress unlawful betting. . “I could not do so,” General Leane said, “even if I lhad a thousand police officers under me. It is futile to expect that persons will not bet. I do not think the position will be improved by .licensing bookmakers.” He agreed that in the detection of betting there was generally hostility to the police, and the sympathy of th e public was with the bettor. The average Australian citizen had no objection to a bet. That applied to all classes, and even to church bazaars. Tlie commissioner said the use of telephones and the wireless had greatly fostered betting in hotels. In private houses where betting was done, it was generally carried on in the bathroom, and when a warning was received of the approach of police, all papers were put into the bath-heater and burned. He believed that some means should he provided to enable people to bet away from racecourses under Government control. Whateve r they did, illegal betting would never be stopped but they could control it.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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218ILLEGAL BETTING Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1933, Page 7
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