THE BOOKMAKER'S PLIGHT.
PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT. The position taken up by the public on the question of the bookmaker and his proposed abolition, as put before Parliament, is interesting. In the Bouse of Representatives this afternoon Mr. Arnold presented a petition signed by 2633 people in Dunedin and the neighbourhood praying that the bookmaker should be retained so long as the totalisator is allowed to exist. On the other hand, the number of petitions presented to Parliament this gession against the bookmaker is 56 — nineteen in tJie Legislative Council and 37 in the House — signed by 5332 persons. The average number of signatures to the petitions presented in the Council was. just over 112 and in the House just over 83.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 22, 26 July 1910, Page 7
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121THE BOOKMAKER'S PLIGHT. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 22, 26 July 1910, Page 7
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