POST OFFICE AND BETTING.
HUGE TELEGRAPHIC TRAFFfC
A. and N.Z.
LONDON. July 17.
The Controller .of the Telegraph Department, giving evidence before the Betting Tax Committee, said that 36,000,000 telegrams were received annually, of which 2,500,000 were connected with horseracing. Ten per cent, of press telegrams related to horse-racing.
During the coal strike there was a very large increase in racing telegrams. '..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18455, 19 July 1923, Page 9
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