TOTALISATOR PERMITS.
As soon as it became known that the Wellington Club intended to license bookmakers a question was asked of the Colonial Secretary whether he would issue totalisator permits to a club which did that sort of thing*. The gentleman who put the question got hfe answer straightly and promptly. ' The Hon. J. Carroll replied, in effect, that he did not wish to interfere with the management of any club which had got its permits. In this the Colonial Secretary has displayed common sense. It may be a moot question whether clubs ought to license bookmakers — the subject is one providing strong arguments on both, sides, — but, in any case, it would be wrong in principle and confusing in practice for the Colonial Secretary, or any other man, to hold the: power of saying that because a club licensed bookmakers it would not get its permits. If the Legislature is of opinion that bookmakers should not be licensed,' ft should face the question and say so in straightforward terms. In the absence of such. au> ■ thority, the Colonial Secretary is acting discreetly in refusing to make a law to meet the case. When one man makes a law for everybody else he 1 is a despot. 'Mr Carroll wisely recognises that that is not Mb position.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 32
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217TOTALISATOR PERMITS. Otago Witness, Issue 2326, 29 September 1898, Page 32
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