STATE LOTTERY URGED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 28 September 1933, Page 9

STATE LOTTERY URGED

STAMPING OUT BOOKMAKERS

PLEA BY MR, BROADFOOT

The elimination of Bookmakers, by converting art unions into State lotteries and by restoring to the racing clubs privileges which they had enjoyed in the past, was advocated by Mr. W. J. Broadfoot (Co., Waitomo), when seconding the Address-in-Repiy in the House of Representatives on Tuesdav evening. Mr. Broadfoot said that the country had definitely declared that the Government regulated- gambling on racecourses. That being so, he contended a mistake was made some years ago when certain privileges enjoyed by racing clubs were withdrawn, with the re-, suit that an army of bookmakers was created. He claimed that these concessions should be restored this session. The Government would be provided with a lucrative source of revenue. “When one realises that there is a continuous supply of art unions it makes one think that the time has arrived when we should have a State lottery;” said Mr. Broadfoot. ‘T.ffnA that profits amounting to £ob(,UHJ were made from State lotteries in New South Wales last year, and that m connection with the Golden Casket in Queensland a profit of £lll,OOO, yielding £22,000 in taxation, was made. 1 There is one clear path to the elimina'tion of bookmakers—the conversion o. i art unions into State lotteries and the i restoration of privileges to racing I clubs Between the two we would suit 1 the big bettor and the silver bettor and I stamp out the bookmaker.