ABOLITION OF THE BOOKMAKER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10041, 15 July 1910, Page 4

ABOLITION OF THE BOOKMAKER.

'lt is considered! probable that the anti-gambling deputation to meet tha Preraipr next Monday will comprise ! from five hundred to a thousand persons. From one end of the Dominion to the other, there has lately been an outcry against the legislation that legalises the bookmaker, consequently, the Government will have to take notice of the objectons raised by a strong section of the people. Speaking on the question in the House od Wednesday, Sir Joseph Ward said that personally he would vote against both the bookmaker and the totalisator. It would thus appeal that he has not given the question as much consideration as the subject may demand, otherwise he would come to the conclusion that if the bookmaker is first abolished and the , totalisator then done away with, I the first-mentioned would be brought back into action, for it must be admitted that so long as horse racing hold? the sway as a leading sport, betting will take place. The time has not yet arrived when the people of Mew Zealand will give their support to any movement that may be brought forward to make racing a sport of the pant; consequently, those who bracket the bookmaker and the totalisator together do so in order to cloud the issues or being afraid the agitation against the animate layers' of odds may have the desired result that they are bringing the legalised machine into the question in order to defeat the object of the anti-gamb-ling public.