NEW GAMING BILL.
(Published by Arrangement.)
Every Post Office a Totalisator Branch
It sounds innocent enough as explained in the Bill —"allowing totalisator investments to be telegraphed to secretary of racing club." In effect, this would make every Post Office a branch of the totalisator. Moreover. any minor would be able to telegraph money to racecourses. It would also be necessary to keep the Post Offices omui all day 011 statutory holidays. 'As each Post Office would become the rendezvous of tipsters and guc-ssers, a possible outcome would be that each ofiice would come under the care of the racecourse detectives. It is not difficult to visualise a new type of official, whose occupation would be explained as, say, "Post Office Totalisator Detective!"' The new parliamentary demand for increased betting facilities is the best possible argument for the licensing of bookmakers. The Gaming Bill is out to widen the grip of the lacing clubs and the totalisator, but its effects would be deleterious to the public interest. Racing is cleaner and sportsmen are better' served where the bookmaker operates as well as the totalisatoi.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 8
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184NEW GAMING BILL. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 8
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