Ten million people spent £20.000,000 011 football pools, a new form <•': “stay-at-home” gambling in England last season. Postal orders increased b> 107,000,000. A dozen mechanical machines had to he installed in the money order department of the General Post Office in London -to sort and collect them in serial order at the rate of 15,000 tin hour—-five, times quicker than human hands can do :>t,. The craze has spread to racing during. football’s “close season,”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12905, 4 July 1936, Page 9
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