Late Sporting
LICENSING BOOKMAKERS. OPPOSITION FROM CLUB. “BOOKMAKER UNNECESSARY.” “It is common knowledge,” said Mr. J. B. Harcourt, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Racing Club on Tuesday, “that an effort will be made this session to legalise bookmakers. One has only to peruse the speeches made annually at the meetings of the New Zealand Racing Conference to find that those in control of racing are absolutely and unreservedly opposed to any legislation of this kind. The bookmaker is quite unnecessary, and we view his possible advent with considerable alarm. “The totalise tor provides ample opportunity for those who desire to bet—. it entices no one—and is seldom the cause of the downfall of even speculative weaklings. Any betting man will tell you how easy it is to put a ‘tenner’ on a horse when it is done on credit with a bookmaker, and what an encouragement this system is to bet beyond one’s means, to which, of course, there is generally only one end. The machine has no wiles or blandishments of this sort, and offers no inducement to steal money to take out to the racecourse.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 252, 2 October 1924, Page 6
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189Late Sporting Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 252, 2 October 1924, Page 6
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