INDIA’S “TATT’S.”
CALCUTTA SWEEP ILLEGAL
PROTEST FROM BRITAIN. London. Nov. 23. Apropos of the declaration that the Calcutta sweepstake is under the Indian code illegal, the London “Daily M ail,” in a leading article, remarks T?ai the general public in Britain certainly hopes that there will lie no interference with the very popular sweepstake. It is true that interest in it has recently grown out of all proportion, but the intention attributed to Uie Calcutta Turf Club to curtail the sale of tickets should meet anv,reasonable objection. If the sweepstake is illegal now’ it ha* always been illegal, the paper adds. The Indian Government must have winked its eye in the past, and no harm will lie done if it continues winking. The Calcutta sweepstake is one of the annual flings that countless people enjoy who are not gamblers.
It is an institution and if abuses have crept in, such its the sale of tickets at enhanced prices, and the sale of forged tickets, it is better to eradicate the abuses than to dispense with the institution.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 301, 8 December 1922, Page 3
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