“RACE OF LAW-BREAKERS”
EFFECT OF BOOKMAKING TELEGRAPHING OF BETS Press Association HASTINGS, Friday. "There are those of us who know that the cities of New Zealand are swarming with bookmakers and their agents,” said Mr. George Ebbett, president of the Hawke’s Bay Trotting Club, in an address at the annual meeting to-day. “Of the thousands of people who trade with them illegally a huge proportion are not lawbreakers from choice, and if they • could telegraph money legally they would do so. "We should consider, too, the increase ip revenue. Yet, whenever this is proposed, there is an uproar of opposition from people who are very noisy> but - who have no inside knowledge of the position. By legalising the telegraphing of money to the courses the moral standard of the community would not be lowered by one fraction. We are breeding a race of lawbreakers, • and all law is being brought into -contempt.
“It is high time that we, who have the brbader minds and the greater knowledge of these' things, organised to see that men are elected to Parliament with sufficient courage to say that they will support it, because it is not wise to have multitudes of bookmakers -carrying on with impunity an illegal business throughout the Dominion.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 1
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