BETTING POLL CAN WE AFFORD TO LET THE LAW BE RIDICULED?
Today there exists in this country an extraordinary state of affairs. In New Zealand it is illegal to practise bookmaking, and yet no country is more thoroughly riddled with bookmakers and their agents than this Dominion of ours. There is a grave social danger when thousands of otherwise law-abid-ing citizens bet off-course with these bookmakers, break the law and see nothing wrong in doing so. What is the answer to the problemFor over 40 years bookmakers have been prohibited, and yet the underground system still flourishes. The answer surely is to adopt the recommendation made by the Royal Gaming Commission and to provide legal facilities for betting away from the course in a recently controlled and lawabiding manner. The Scheme recommended to the Government by the Royal Commission offers just such facilities. Do you prefer that off-course betting should be under a legal and properly controlled system or under a system involving a continued and flagrant breaking of the law? This is the issue on which you will vote on Polling Day, March 9. A vote “FOR THE PROPOSAL” is a vote to recove a blot on our National life. It is a vote for law and order. — [lssued by authority N.Z. Racing and Trotting Conferences.]
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 3
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217BETTING POLL CAN WE AFFORD TO LET THE LAW BE RIDICULED? Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22868, 11 February 1949, Page 3
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