DRASTIC REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA.
(Received September 16, 8.5 a.m.)
CAPETOWN, Sept. 15. The Union -Government 'has introduced a drastic Bill, restricting race meetings and prohibiting betting on any sports, with the exception of horso racing, and then only at the racecourse, and hy means of the totalisator. The Bill proposes to abolish the business of bookmaking, and will prohibit the publication of ante-post betting or ante-posit information relating to races run either inside or outside the Union. The Government will take two per cent of the gross takings of the totalisator, plus two per cent of the profits.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10426, 18 September 1911, Page 7
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99DRASTIC REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10426, 18 September 1911, Page 7
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