INJURED BOOKMAKERS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9017, 3 December 1907, Page 2

INJURED BOOKMAKERS.

APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT. Per Press Association. Wellington, December S. " A deputation of bookmakers waited on the Attorney-General to-day to complain about the manner in which the new Gaming Act had been administered by Feilding Racing Club and to ask that the law should be carried out in the spirit intended by the Legislature. The deputation asked that a mandate should be issued to Racing Clubs compelling them to administer the Act fairly. The bookmakers protested against being charged £2O a day and also against being roped in in an enclosure. Dr. Findlay, in reply, said he wanted to explain that bookmakers had no right to expect and would not get any indulgence from. Government. The duty of Government would not permit it to show any favor in any shape or form to any agency of gambling. He quoted Acts to show that Government had power to cancel or refuse to issue a license for the totalisator and he indicated that in the event of a club imposing or asking bookmakers to observe unreasonable conditions he would advise Cabinet to have a club's totalisator permit cancelled. Bookmakers had been given a legal status and they were to bo put in no wors?, and no better position than the totalisator on the course. The Act would be administered in a spirit of fairness and Government would also endeavour to secure absolute observance pf its provisions.