BETTING OFF THE COURSE
ADOPTION URGED IN VICTORIA
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE. August 16. The chairman of the Victoria Racing Club (Sir Chester Manifold) last night urged legislation providing for off-the-course betting in Victoria. Speaking at the club’s annual meeting. Sir Chester Manifold said that legal start-ing-price betting was an efficient means of eliminating illicit betting. The introduction of off-course betting in New Zealand had not created more gambling in the community. It had merely channeled it into legal centres. Sir Chester Manifold quoted a report by Judge Mitchell (Victorian Control Board' chairman) on the New Zealand situation.
Judge Mitchell, said Sir Chester Manifold, came to the conclusion that legalised off-course betting had neither encouraged nor increased betting in New Zealand.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27739, 17 August 1955, Page 4
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