LOST REVENUE
CAN THE STATE AFFORD IT?
If the Government can easily secure about UiuOjuUU additional revenue per annum without trouble and expense, and without directly taxing die community—why should they let the opportunity go by? This is what the sporting community of the Dominion is asking. The sum mentioned may be obtained by licensing the bookmaKers, and thus allowing them to carry on their traue side by side with the totalizator. If one form ,of betting is legal, why not another? Gambling is not made moral by making it a monopoly. People will bet—especially the racegoing public. They might as well be in small amounts with the bookmaker as in larger sums with the totalisator. The Racing Clubs will lose nothing, and the State will secure a large amount of additional revenue. This proposal, which ib s;ine and logical, deserves full enquiry by broad-minded people. If you lire convinced that something should be done to defeat the “cranks” and puritanical folk—if you arc a true sport—you will sign the petition which has been freely circulated and may be signed almost anywhere. Do not neglect this small action on behalf of sport and freedom.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1922, Page 6
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194LOST REVENUE Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1922, Page 6
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