HEAVY EXPENDITURE
ENTERTAINMENT AND RELAXATION HIGH TOTALISATOR TURNOVER IN BRITAIN N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent Rec. 8.30 p.m. LONDON Sept 2. The fact-finding pamphlet issued by the Conservative Party central office estimates 'that the people of Britain spend £1,666.000,000 yearly upon sports and other forms of 'relaxation. The pamphlet claims that over 8,000,000,000 cigarettes were smoked monthly during the whole of 1946, and points out that totalisator receipts during the same year reached £ 14,500,000, while bets lodged with bookmakers are estimated at between £290.000.000 and £460.000,000. About £200.000,000 was wagered during the same period at dog racing tracks, and the annual turnover of football pools was £50,000,000. The pamphlet estimates the number of people employed in various sections of the entertainment industry has increased by 160 per cent, since 1921.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 5
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128HEAVY EXPENDITURE Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 5
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