COMMISSION ON GAMING
TELEGRAPHED BETS OPPOSITION BY P. AND T. EMPLOYEES <P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 14. Any proposal lor off-course betting involving extensive telegraphing of bets to racecourses will not be supported by xne executive of the New Zealand Pcfet and Telegraph Employees Association and Officers’ Guild. Submissions to this effect were made by Mr G. A. Wilkes, postmaster of Wellington East, the president of the association, to the Gaming Commission to-day. The reasons for this attitude were stated to be the urgent necessity of reducing the amount of telegraphic business on Saturdays to a minimum, and the undesirability of introducing any scheme resulting in many young members of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association being brought into an atmosphere of gambling. Many branches of the Post Office service were seriously short-staffed. Mr Wilkes said. One of the difficulties of recruiting staff was the necessity for Saturday work. Staffs throughout the country were pressing strongly for a reduction of Saturday work. His association would co-operate to the maximum in providing essential services on Saturdays, but betting telegrams were not within this category.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25159, 15 April 1947, Page 8
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