RACES IN WARTIME
BETTING AND SAVING (S.R.) WKLUXGTON. Thursday '•lt is not certain that the individual who spends his money on racing Mould in anv ease invest the same in national savings," said the Minister of Finance, the lion. W. Nash, when replying in the Mouse oi Representatives to-day to a question hv Mr. W. J. Poison tOpposition —Stratford) concerning the effect of the increases in totalisator investments upon the national savings cam-
paign. "As a result of war conditions the number of racing days iias already been reduced, eight clubs having suspended I heir meetings for the current racing year, which ends to-day." Mr. Nash said, in reply to a suggestion that the number of racing days should be reduced. "The whole matte? - will be the subject of consideration when the allocation of racing days for the coming year is up for review."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24032, 1 August 1941, Page 6
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