TOTALISATOR AND BOOKMAKER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 171, 22 July 1930, Page 6

TOTALISATOR AND BOOKMAKER.

A close perusal of "J.V.Cs" letter on ' above subject proves that our "unbalanc ? judgments" are not so much at odds. Your co | respondent confesses Mi". Rowe's error) a . ' claims that the bookmaker is a necessity. L took Mr. Rowe to task 011 just those ground k claiming that if»tlie bookmaker is a detnin J - to the community the totalisator roust • c 011 that reasoning I turned the word p. . 3 site" (a very ill-chosen term) hack on " "tote." Later 011 "J.V.C." states that there are ' too many meetings. I did not, nor am 1 ' going to, adjudicate 011 that matter. But plainly "J.V.C." bears out my contention" , the only wav to curtail betting is throug 5 clubs. Mr. Rowe seeks to do it tln'OUgl ' P. 0., or, if not to diminish it, then to ce r ise it. Anent this, "J.V.C." says: 1 Rowe) was only following what seems the general tendency these times, and . to try to get the Government's assl ?, v . » in making his business free from corcpe A very bad principle is herein •involve • is one of the functions for whidi » ments are not constituted. _' / ' touchedj the fly in the treacle without r » it. And have not successive Governuicn their best? Is there 110 heresy hunt midst? The clubs have most of the jnacu . of State working in their interests a Are we to give them the P.O. now 1 > truth, and the plain truth, is that .-X will never get a complete inonopo } betting in this, or in any other, Monopoly, even in sport, is bad, desp "modern tendency," and there is to» unworkable legislation 011 our books 0 already. This appears to be the on y at issue between "J.V.C." and mysel . :. j welcome the "two-bob tote," just » i ie tt o rs out. It would prove a boon to last-rac even if it did not solve tiie problem 0 j. in'' "tote'" returns in times of si• ,„v i,n tn 11,« ftliihs. FRANK K; m®