LICENSING BOOKMAKERS.
OPPOamON FROM RACING CLUB.
“ft is common knowledge,” said All' J. B. Hascourt, at the annual meeting of the Wellington .Racing Club on Tuesday, “that an eii'ort will be made this session to legalise bookmakers. One has only to peruse the speeches made annually at the meetings of the N.Z. Racing Conference.to Jind that those in control of racing are absolutely and unreservedly opposed to any legislation of this kind. The bookmaker is quite unnecessary, and we view his possible advent with considerable alarm. “The totatisator provides ample opportunity for those who desire to bet —il entices no one—and is seldom the cause of the downfall of even speculative weaklings. Any betting man will tell you how easy it is to put a ‘tenner’ on a horse when it is done on credit with a bookmaker and what an encouragement this system is to bet beyond one’s means, to which, of course, there is generally only one eud. The machine has no wiles or blandishments of this sort, and offers no inducement to steal money to take out to the racecourse.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2792, 2 October 1924, Page 3
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183LICENSING BOOKMAKERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2792, 2 October 1924, Page 3
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