GAMING BILL

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 13

GAMING BILL

PROVISIONS COMMENDED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) ] . PAHIATUA, This Day. ' _ At the annual meeting of the PahiaV ™a Racing Club the president, Mr. J« .M'Cardle, referred to the numerous subV, stantial improvements : made to th«j ground and various appointments duri ing the year. ■ •

le?'mß t0 the- Gaming.'Bill, Mi% M'Cardle said that if would serve id make the lot of the bookmaker much] harder. Looking at it i'rom a sporting point of view the suppressing of the! bookmaker was an excellent thing. lii all the small towns there were men whd would bet on credit or any other wA^ so long as they got hold of the mone^i He did not suggest that all bookmaker! were dishonourable, but the system-lenl itself, to a good deal of undesirable' betting. Though bookmaking. was 2 punishable offence, it was a very hari one to stop. „...'., •? In. the speaker's opinion lacing inform mation should be made public anil above board. As things were at pre* sent one had. to go up a back alletf whispering to find out from a book* maker or his clerk what won the las| race* It-was very desirable that ttJ Bill should go through. .. The; president expressed the oprnioij ■that things were going to be altogethe* better than they had been. "We hay! passed through years of depression, hv% I think New Zealand is about to turii , the corner now, '■' he said;; " All wW, want is a drop in the big rates charge^ for money. Things seem to be going back to normal, but still we should g$ slow and feel our way." ■'".■'