T.A.B. For New York?

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30215, 21 August 1963, Page 4

T.A.B. For New York?

(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Two New York City officials will leave for Auckland this week to investigate the New Zealand offcourse betting system. Their findings will help to decide whether New York is to have off-course betting, and what kind of system might be put into effect.

Under present plans they will leave New York next Friday and fly first to Auckland.

They will confer with Government and racing officials on the New Zealand system in both Auckland and Wellington before leaving on September 8 by air for Sydney. On arrival in Sydney they will fly direct to Brisbane After conferences there they plan to visit Sydney and MelbourgijU>efore leaving tor EuroMKi September 13. Final pflfns for their Australian and New Zealand visits were concluded today. The officials are Mr James

A. Cavanagh and Mr Albert Margolis. Mr Cavanagh, who is the assistant to the chief examiner in the office of the city’s budget director, Mr William Shea, will be representing the Mayor of New York, Mr Robert Wagner. Mr Margolis will be representing the city’s controller, Mr Abraham Beame. He is director of the research bureau in the controller’s 4epartment. “We feel that the New Zealand system is similar to what we visualise for New York.” a city official said "They will make a very extensive survey.” The New York City survey is similar to one which two other officials representing

the State of New York are currently conducting in Britain. Mayor Wagner is to ask the City Council tomorrow to approve a referendum on off-track betting for November 5. The New York “HeraldTribune” said in an editorial today that “the object of all this unseemly haste is to enable the city to get deeper into the gambling business, in the hope that it will divert to the city’s coffers revenues now going into unlawful hands.”