LOST REVENUE.
CAN THE STATE AFFORD IT?
If the Government can easily secure about £lOO.OOO additional revenue per annum without trouble and expense, and without directly taxing the 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 trade side by side with the totalisator. 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 bet in small amounts with the bookmakers as in larger sums with the totalisator. Tlie Racing Clubs‘will lose nothing, and the State will secure a large amount of additional revenue. This proposal, which is sane and logical, deserves full enquiry by broadminded people. If you are convinced that something should be done 'to defeat the “cranks” and puritanical folk —if you are 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 free--dom.—Advt.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 99, 5 April 1922, Page 2
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194LOST REVENUE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 99, 5 April 1922, Page 2
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