WHEN TE LAST LONELY BOOKIE SHOUTS THE ODDS
They did it with the barmaids. Now they want to do it with the bookmakers. Victoria, it is reported, may make provision in her Totalisator Afct for registering all existing bookmakers and then close thev list of licences. Barmaids are a dying race in Victoria. In 1916 the edict was issued, the Licensing Prohibition Act, which says that barmaids who were working at the time of the passing of the Act may continue, but that no more girls can take up the occupation. The last Victorian barmaid will serve her last drink in the dim future, but she isn’t likely to die a millionaire.
The last bookmaker, on the other hand, should be a Croesus of Croesus. Imagine the army of clerks necessary to handle the cash and to book the bets at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day 1987, if only one bookmaker was there. “No totalisator yet invented,” says Mr. Jim Hackett, one of Australia’s best known bookmakers, “could handle the cash of the public at Rand wick or Flemington if there were no bookmakers operating.
“Certainly the lucky last fielder would be worth his weight in diamonds.”
South Australia led the way in barring the barmaid in 1910, and also in prohibiting the bookmakers in 1895.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 7
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