TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS.
The return to New Zealand of several thousands of letters addressed to the CbmimierciaJ Bank in Ta.snnanr ia, and presumably containing remittances for Tatter-sail's, Wieep&, will serve to direGt attention to a systemrof illicit gambling which has been- going on. unider the'nose of the Pios-tmastei-General for' years past, and which apparently no attem.pt has. been made to;/ suppress. The Plrime Minister toild the people of Wiinlbon on' Tuesday that lie hiad abolished the bookmaker -amd the "tote", shop- He has done so just about as effectively as he Iras abolished sweep -investments; The whole thing is- a travesty. Fw' better, to legalise s-weepa in. the country than to allow tiTmnsands of pounds to be diverted annually to another State. The Goveni'menrt; has. been noting the part of an. ((allegedly unoanßoioiiiß) abettor to sweeps all throuteih the .piece. . . , ■■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 4
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139TATTERSALL'S SWEEPS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 4
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