TO LIMIT GAMBLING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 651, 30 October 1909, Page 5

TO LIMIT GAMBLING.

'•■•'.■ , ,',\vhat;' is 'tM^sitionp % :^ > f^'i ' ;'(By.Telegraph!—Special.Correspondent.) :' i ■■.' : .' : >J^V; V % v ,: " In a.special.article oil tho".gatoblinE:©yU tli§.;v'i "Herald" this' morning has the foUowinß:-^':'■; 'ji',, "Tho" Auckland' Racing;! Club, on caobAof. lh.,,!^' ; > thirteen 1 raca "days, .licensed '.an 'average, ;J of:'::;■ :f thirty-one bookmakers,'."and received..in, fees! iVp,' for the year, from tMssOurbe the sum of J&fIGD!,; jn for the right to'hot; .this Being only: B,iew'v v ':,'' 1 . pounds less than the 1 amount-received-by thav: "! >•■ Victoria'Eacing CluW.-which'• took ,in., fees:..,?';!' for" sixteen',days' facing., the sum ;;bfyjsßsoo-7* : .',''v ■'■":;': losser •' average ' per 1' day, • but 5 the toomparison' '■) O'.. does. not end here. ."'There us i'no;: tbtaliaator. .V&'-'; operating- at /Memingtbn,''; while, at mieraliv;!-: il, the maohino.is a.great rival ofcthe penoiUbrs..v"il'' It :would:'l)B::i«asbnably;.mth\«o' ; imanr\.book«"vV.V ,: .' .mokers. doing, business '■■■ to; oxpoet the totalisa->f jft! tor receipts to..6hrihk f vbutHhera"'again.''another :''<"•;. extraordinary Ipositio'ti?;is'v A disbl6soaJ':'f6r;-;,dfls-::::iv.', pite .the opcration i o{;.wVmoiy[ : b.obkmakerßi.i||9^ l " : : i v mnchino.recoiptsincreased,for■■ th'oYybar.,-.1-.',-i-:;•.':< "V : "It is thusvory evident that, tho'.'ideal''of"''; : 'i:;' limiting<B J arablink%;;for/whioh:purpo9bi:thu3.-8i11V../j':\ was presumably drafted/has not realised, ; l'*'" and it would bo somewhat hard to < find sttn." ' ;' answer:to,tha'jchargo'|hat this failure is duo'":.v'. ; . to' bookmakers; The: ActTof •,.';/ :A 1907 (to quote the' words, of Sir Joseph Ward)- ; v. 1 .oontainod.'some uf ',tho„niost:.dras.tio;,p.rpppsals.'.)V;v' that'llad'b'vbr v BilLsubmittcd to any Parliament in the worldA ,:'it; Theso,-'drastic' hibition: of-.the: pubhc'atioU'of r.lotausator : 0dd3,1, 'V:and' tho "suppression "of .'street'...betting ■ '<■ and', '-. : 1< totalieatbr^'shopS."'/:..Tb»':.firßt ; 'h'aii^bM^''Blrictlr.'. :V '' | i ;, :V oanied out,.but its efficacy in reducing'! gaiufe:.::''* ling is,doubtful. .The.second rind!third elauMs"; /j. are,dead.letters, for, mono^.' is,'wigei'cd.'everyS^' ? 'day'of'the week'iu ; *Qlieeh' Street "on races nein(j;-v'. : '.'.- ; ; i ■hold in'<aUi parts,vof:;the"Dominion.-.>lt-,:iS'- ! a.~«:.s':f any ■:■ importance: is'. being held ■. :outside': land, n great crowd gathers in Queen Street,':: ';;.'j and the vicinity,''bf Vulcan Lane, "and'wagera •.''*.'"..: are' laid race -by. race..': The .attempt', of "the.!"y •','*•;' Bill to confine betting' to licab;--:'" >.K' : only be described 'as: a. dismal i failure,:;' In'l the,;; ',/'•• meantime, .although" thoViAcf;;,hasoprohibited';' \:; ; .' v betting. one athletic-cyonts,,; and:,did teal serv:. ;■..;>; Vise by t])»...:■.,,':; practice is still carried qUiillioitlyVandYotbtavi i' • forms of gambUng^iia.i9V'B}s9jindjil(!cd''in'i , .V'.^-,:'Vy-^'V: