THE BOOKMAKER.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 167, 17 July 1920, Page 8

THE BOOKMAKER.

MEASURES FDR SUPPRESSION

BRASIIC PROVISIONS

TfROM «^R COKRESPONeENT.] WELLINGTON,, July 16. Drastic provisions aaffiisng at the, ' complete .sappression «f the book- j maker are contaiiied »i aa« amend- j went to tfee Gaming Act introduced! "by tho Bmi. Mr A»a©rson. Clause •2" reads: The business or occupation ©fa bookmaker H hereby declared -U, be -wtiawftil. Every person carry- , in-' on such business or occupation , coramte an offence against this Act an«l :is liabio upon summary conviction 'to a. fine of £500, or to imprisonment for ti "term of two years. Another clause imposes a fine up to £WJ or one month's imprisonment for tlie offence of betting with a tjeofetiaker. In any prosecution the fact that a person indirectly ,or directly offered to take a bet or issred a card or circular stating the .odds shall be sufficient evidence unifcil the contrai-y is proved that such. T.erson is a bookmaker. Investments on the totalisator are not affected, ■ nor are isolated bets between mdivi«2nals. ~v- -v, Ti Clause 5 reads: "Iso person shall be deemed to commit an . offence against this Act by reason merely •of the fact that he has made a bet with any ether, person upon any particular -event, unless it is part of the Timsiness or occupation of either of -such persons to make bets."' # The former provisions or the ,iyiu Act relating; to betting in tin* street, en the racecourse, or in public places jmd tlie right of racecourse authorities to move bookmakers from the course after warning them to desist from betting are repeated. _ There is a new clause empowering *he removal of bookmakers without

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