TELEGRAMS. BOOKMAKERS AND LICENSES.
THE DIFFICULTY OF DISCRIMINATION. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. The bookmakers and their licenses were briefly referred to by the president of the Auckland Racing Club (the Hon. E. Mitchelson), at the annual meeting of the club. "Th?re are bookmakers and bookmakers," lie raid, "and we have found great difficulty in discriminating between them." This task had caused considerable annoyance, but at the last meeting they had adopted a new system by invoking the assistance of the police. Ho reeietted that the Racing Conference had not taken this* matter into its consideration, with a view of inducing the Government to amend the Act so as to pive the clubs mere discretionary power. The Wellington Club had asked permission from tho conference to refuse litenses to bookmakers plying at unregistered meetings, and he thought it was desirable that such bookmakers should be debarred from betting at the metropolitan meetings. He also thought that the clubs should set their face against the removal of the disqualifications of all persons or hors.es taking part in unregistered meetings.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1909, Page 3
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