ILLEGAL BETTING.
CONVICTIONS TOTAL 1800. FINES AMOUNT TO £13,427. STATE CONTEMPLATES ACTION United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright SYDNEY. July 23. Convictions for Illegal betting within the Sydney metropolitan district and Newcastle for the six months to June 30, numbered 1800, and fines amounted to £13,427. The Government contemplates stamping out starting-price betting along the linos of the Queensland legislation, and the matter will be a major Issue at the forthcoming New South Wales election. “ The suppression of starting-price betting shops and other channels for off-the-course betting has been responslble f•»r a complete re\j\ q «>f racing throughout Queensland,” said Mr. P. O'Shea, chairman of the Queensland Turf Club, at the annual meeting to-day. He pointed out that In 19?6 his eluh had a peak profit of £13,665. hut with the spread of betting shops the profits tumbled to £3150 In 1932. £964 | n 1933. and £695 in 19.14. whereas in the past year the profit bad risen to £7660, Y
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 7
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160ILLEGAL BETTING. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 7
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