BOOKMAKERS AND RACING CLUBS.
STATEMENT BY .MINISTER FOK INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
There is still a disposition on the part of some of the smaller racing clubs to impose conditions with regard to the admission of bookmakers to their grounds which are intended to be prohibitive. The Hon. Dr. Findlay, who has just returned from Auckland, told a "New Zealand Times" reporter that some of the small clubs which held merely country meetings were demanding S2O for the bokmaker, and .£2O for his clerk, besides impossible drastic conditions. One very large club, on the other hand, the Auckland Club, was charging £2O for the bookmaker and admitting the clerk without fee, otherwise imposing reasonable conditions. This course appeared to work well. The example shown by the larger clubs was a test of what was fair, and if the smaller clubs deliberately set themselves to violate the spirit of section 85 of the Act the remedy would rest with the Minister ■of Internal Affairs in refusing a permit for the totalisator. This course was an extreme one, and woula only be adopted upon conclusive proof that the clubs were deliberately evading the Act. —"N.Z. Times."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9017, 2 January 1908, Page 3
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192BOOKMAKERS AND RACING CLUBS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9017, 2 January 1908, Page 3
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