OFF-COURSE BETTING
Proposal For 'New York (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, January 13 The Mayor of New York (Mr Robert Wagner) made another plea yesterday for legal off-course betting. In a letter accompanying New York city’s annual financial statement, Mr Wagner told the State Governor (Mr Nelson Rockefeller) that the city and State could take in 100 million dollars a year if only the State Legislature would make off-course betting legal.
“Off-track betting is a source which cannot be ignored,” he said. “The money available from it is going right at this moment into the pockets of the underworld to finance other and more nefarious activities.”
Mr Wagner maintained that offcourse betting “is the obvious source of great new revenue.” Besides the big tax revenue it would provide, such a plan would “cut down the sums presently spent in seeking to wipe out this form of gambling. “If there is a moral issue Involved in this at all, its weight probably belongs on the side of those who favour off-track betting as a legalised system,” the Mayor said.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29102, 14 January 1960, Page 11
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