"BOOKIES" HOSTILE.
BETTING TAX UNPOPULAR.
(Received 9.30. a.m.)
SYDNEY, this day,
At the New Year's Day race meeting of 'latter-sail's Club, at Randwick, the attendance ' was officially estimated at 25,000, compared with 42,000 at the same meeting last year. A number of bookmakers have refused to pay the Government's annual tax of £70, while there is a likelihood of the tax of 10 per cent on winning bets being modified- or repealed, More than 50 of the bookmakers' stands were unoccupied. A plain-clothes 1 constable seized a telegram at the racecourse telegraph office, alleging that the sender was communicating a bet to a starting-price bookmaker in the city and so endeavouring to defeat the tax. The incident caused a commotion.
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Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 7
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