GAMING ACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 190, 14 August 1933, Page 9

GAMING ACT.

AMENDMENT REQUIRED. ATTEMPT NEXT SESSION. "It is gratifying to find that still another attempt will be made during the coming session of Parliament to amend the Gaming Act in the direction of allowing the installation-of a double totalisator at race meetings, the transmission of investments through the Telegraph Office,, and the publication of totalisator dividends," said Mr. O. Nicholson, president of the Auckland Eacing Club, at the annual meeting of members of the club this afternoon. Mr. Nicholson further stated that there were indications that such amendments would receive a larger measure of support now from members of Parliament than had been extended to them in the past, and it was hoped that the same would become law before the session closed. If such eventuated, it would give racing patrons additional facilities for their investments which they had long desired and which they thought they were justly entitled to. It was difficult to understand why Parliament, by refusing these concessions, should limit and restrict investments by those who desired to make them on the totalisator, which was the only legalised method of betting on horse racing m the Dominion, and from which the Government derived a" very substantial revenue. By so doing it was driving betting into unlawful avenues from which it derived no revenue beyond the fines collected for breaches of the law.