T.A.B. betting in hotels favoured

Press, 7 April 1984, Page 8

T.A.B. betting in hotels favoured

PA Rotorua The Licensing Trusts Association voted yesterday to support T.A.B. betting in hotels and taverns. A majority of the 126 delegates at the association's annual conference agreed with their president. Mr K. H. Eddy, that betting in licensed premises was inevitable. Trusts should not be left out in the cold, Mr Eddysaid. “Our patrons should have the same facilities that may be available to other organisations, and it is an area in which we will move with alacrity,” he said. Mr Eddy also expressed concern at the Wairakei conference that some people might feel they were being overcharged when they

bought liquor from a retail outlet. He said that they could gain this impression if purchases were made from a cut-price liquor outlet which did not always put a normal mark-up on all its sales. "In fact, they were not being overcharged at all," he said. Mr Eddy also said the code of practice on liquor advertising was working. "With millions of dollars spent annually and only two complaints since the code came into force, it must be working," he said. A remit calling for the drinking age limit to stay at 20 was lost. Delegates said this stance was hypercritical, particularly when so many drinkers under the age of 20, had little trouble in getting drinks.