THE BETTING INQUIRY
CLERICS GIVE EVIDENCE.
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(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CADLB ABSOCIIHON.)
(Received 14th July, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 13th July. Bishop. Welldon, giving evidence before the Betting Commission, said that the totalisator was a more straightforward system than bookmaking. The State, he contended, should not derive revenue from immoral practices. A shilling bet was not wrong, but he objected to people betting when they were unable to afford it. He supported a tax on betting, because he believed it would curtail the operations of the betting ring and diminish unlicensed betting. Canon Green, of Manchester, said he considered that there were at least a hundred thousand cases annually where betting caused crime. Betting generally was-"a mug's game."
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1923, Page 7
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119THE BETTING INQUIRY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 12, 14 July 1923, Page 7
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