GAMBLING IN ENGLAND
HOUSE KEEP INO AfOXEY POR BETTI XT!.
London. April 22. 'Tn some of the working-class dislriels the bookmaker comes round with the regularity of the milkman in order to take the housewives’ bets while their husbands are away :it work." states ATr \V. Randall, secretary of the Turf Guardian Society. writing in the society’s year book. “These women have nothing with which to bet except the housekeeping money and when they lose they nre compelled to resort |o nil sorts of shifts to keep the home going until next pay day."
ATr Randall estimates that half a million men and women habitually make small bcl>. seldom exceeding 2 l! with street bookmakers (who nre illegal). The total annual volume of street betting is about <.Ti.2f>t!.omt: and the total volume of all belting including covering bets laid over ami over again is C 140.(1(1(1. 0(10.
Mr Knndnl! adds that S!) per cent, of the money betted with office bookmakers returns as the hackers bet with it oper and over again. He estimates that'the bookmakers win £4,000,000 a year.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2725, 26 April 1924, Page 2
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180GAMBLING IN ENGLAND Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2725, 26 April 1924, Page 2
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