BOOKMAKING PROFESSION.
Strong remarks upon the bookmaking profession were made by Mr Justice Bailhacle, during an action in which a bookmaker sought to refute damaging statements which had been made about him, as a result of which he received a farthing damages. The judge began his summing up with the remark that the plaintiff carried on the occupation of a bookmaker. I call it occupation rather than business (proceeded his Lordship) because it would be a slander upon the word business to class a bookmaker’s occupation as a business. It is an occupation which is legal. The law has not interfered to prevent its being carried on, presumably because the bookmaker supplies a public want and provides a market into which fools can go and lose money which they can ill-afford, and where they can do it with little trouble to themselves and with great expedition. For that, or for some other reasons, the law has not interfered to prevent its being carried on. But it is essential to an occupation of this kind that the bookmaker should be honest to the extent that when be loses he should pay.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1126, 29 July 1913, Page 3
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190BOOKMAKING PROFESSION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1126, 29 July 1913, Page 3
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