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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5377, 21 January 1929, Page 3

There have lately been successful prosepations of bookmakers, male and female, who operate on a small scale, but wq never, or; almost never, hear of the prosecution of the magnates in this illegal industry. These men, who turn over £lOO for every £1 turned oyer by the small offenders who so easy to circumvent, operate in every city in the Dominion, and many of them are as well known as the town clock (says the Christchurch “Press”). That they are left unmolested, or at least escape any attempts that the authorities piay make to obtain evidence against them, may be a result of their watch--fulness and ingenuity, but it may also be a result of poor technique on the part of those responsible; for enforcing the law. Effective regulations may not be possible, but tlidt they are not possible is far from an established fact. .When he likes t'hq Post master-General can shut out anybody’ who he :has reason to suppose is using the post for purposes nndtesired by the State ; the Gazette contains hundreds of names of persons for whom the Post Office will not carry letters. It ought to be possible for the telegraph branch to show an equal efficiency in dealing with the bookmakers.