RACING AND BETTING.
TO THX EDITOR. Sir,—Your leader on the subject, ‘ Racing and Betting,’ has interested me. Although I am myself not a betting man, I have no objection to anyone having his “flutter.” Gambling in some form is natural with the vast majorityvof humans, and no amount of opposition by the church people will stop it. It therefore behoves the Governnient to try to control it so that it will not become a great evil. One phrase in your leader, “ in the days before the abolition of the bookmaker,” has struck me. Has the bookmaker been abolished? It is well known that there are a number of these parasites in this city who flourish on the pickings from the “ mugs.” I verily believe that the police do their best to bring these people to book, but find it very difficult to obtain the necessary evidence. I submit that the bookmakers should be attacked in every possible way, and suggest that if totalisator betting were made available to people other than those actually present on the course it would go a long way to combat them. I think there are too many race meetings held in New Zealand now. To a few people racing may he a sport, hut to the majority it is simply a means of having a gamble.—l am, etc., December 18. Moderation.
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Evening Star, Issue 22526, 19 December 1936, Page 21
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