GAMING BILL INTRODUCED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2783, 11 September 1924, Page 3

GAMING BILL INTRODUCED.

INCREASED TROTTING AND RACING PERMITS. Wellington, Last Night. The Gaming Bill was introduced to-day. It makes provision for up to a dozen one-day extra permits for racing clubs and up to nineteen for trotting clubs. It is. provided that on a change of constitution, a racing club may retain the right to receive a permit. It is proposed to make it lawful for a club to refund money invested on the totalisator in respect of any horse which is, for any reason, withdrawn from the race before the closing of the machine. The totalisator is hot to be open to receive investments more than eight times a day at any one meeting and not more than eight races a day will be allowed. No member of any club is to be deemed to have any pecuniary interest in his capacity as a member in the property of the club, and on the dissolution of the club, the assets remaining after all legal claims nave been satislied shall be disposed of for public or charitable jiurposes in such a manner as the club with the approval of the Minister of internal Affairs, may have determined, prior to its dissolution, or, in default of such determination, in the manner appointed by the Govemor-General-in-Council. There is a clause covering the appointment of totalisator inspectors and stating their powers.