WHY?
OUR sincere gratitude is due to Sir George Hunter, M.P., for the introduction of the Gaming Bill during the fast session, reports the presidential statement at to-day’s Racing Conference. The unfair nature of the opposition which secured its rejection will not succeed again in enabling a minority to defeat a measure of such vital interest — the removal of a truly absurd prohibition of the publication of dividends, and the grant of permission to remit investments on the totalisator to clubs at race times. Why withhold from New Zealand newspapers what price was paid in the betting ring by the winner of the English Derby, transmitted elsewhere throughout the world on the day of the race, and why not allow colonial investors on the totalisator to have the distinct advantage and comparative safety of dealing directly with the totalisator, instead of being driven to risk their money with itinerant vendors of the odds with a palpable lack of security? It is calculated that so far as the Telegraph Department is interested that the transmission of private investments would be more profitable as well as more helpful than its present use by the law-breaking bookmaker.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 6
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194WHY? Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 6
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