BETTING BY TELEPHONE
Australian Scheme (N.Z Press Association—Copy right i MELBOURNE, August 2. Off-course bets by telephone—even from New Zealand—to Flemington and Caulfield became a possibility today when leading rails bookmakers applied to introduce a telephone betting system at Melbourne’s two famous racecourses. The Victoria Racing Club and the Victoria Amateur Turf Club will deal with, applications from two bookmakers at meetings later this month. Under the proposed scheme, offcourse bettors would be able to telephone their bets to > the course to take either starting price odds or the ruling quote in any race. Telephones designed to take only incoming calls would be used. Racing club officials said today that clubs stood to make thousands of pounds from the schema in increased turnover tax. At present the clubs get an eighth per cent, of the 2 per cent, tax on bookmakers’ turnover.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28346, 3 August 1957, Page 7
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