AMENDED GAMING ACT

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4043, 28 September 1933, Page 4

AMENDED GAMING ACT

LEGISLATION SOUGHT TELEGRAPHING OF BETS DOT RLE TOTALI SATOIt Wellington, Sept. 27 Introducing the Gaming Amendment Bill in the House, Mr. E. THealy referred to, the number of petitions addressed to the House in support of the proposals contained in it. lie said that permission to telegraph bets to n totalisator would enable tlie Government to collect, substantial additional revenue—in the

vicinity of £220,000 a year—without any cost of collection. The Bill would also give urgently necessary relief to racing and trotting clubs and diminish the volume of illegal betting. Referring to the proposal to remove the restriction on the publication of dividends, -Mr. Healy said it was absurd that newspapers should not he allowed to publish these figures. when it was possible in any town or village to ascertain some ten minutes after the race had been run what horses were first, second and third and what ha l been the dividends. Advocating the introduction of the double totalisator, he said that the present prohibition against the machine operated definitely in favour of those laying odds illegally. Tlie Bill was read a first time.