THE BOOKMAKER

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 17 October 1921, Page 8

THE BOOKMAKER

I "PRACTICALLY ABOLISHED." ' "Don't forget that we have practically abolished the bookmaker," said the prime Minister to the deputation from the Ministers' Association last .week. "I don't say that the bookmaker ;has ceased to exist, because you do hear of him occasionally, but you don't see him; he doesn't come before the public." "Mr. C. M. Luke: He is not a respectable member of the community now Mr. Massey: I helieve that gimblino; with the bookmaker goes on still, but not- to the same extent as formerly. I believe there has been 'a great reduction, and that the people who used to gamble with, the bookmaker—and it is the most objectionable form of gambling m the world—now go to the totalisator? 1 don't say that the totaJisatorJs, perfect at all. But it is the lesser evil?"