GAMING LAWS.
AMENDMENTS SOUGHT. OPENING FOR REVENUE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 27. Introducing the Gaming Amendment Bill in tlie House of Representatives this afternoon, Mr E. F. Healy ref erred to the number of petitions addressed to the House in support of the proposals contained in it. He said that permission to telegraph bets to a totalisator would enable the Government to collect substantial additional revenue—in the vicinity of £220,000 a year—without any cost of collection. The Bill would also give urgently necessary relief to racing and trotting clubs and diminish the volume of illegal betting. Referring to the proposal to remove the restriction on the publication of dividends, Mr Healy said it was absurd that newspapers should not bo allowed to publish these figures, when it was possible in any town or village to ascertain some ten minutes after the race had been run wliat . horses were first, second and third and what had been the dividends. Advocating the introduction of the double totalisator, he said that the present prohibition against this machine operated definitely in favour of those laying adds illegally. The Bill was read the first time.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 258, 28 September 1933, Page 8
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191GAMING LAWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 258, 28 September 1933, Page 8
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