THE GAMING LAWS
PROPOSED AMENDMENT GETTING EACHiI.TLKS (l>or Press Association.) WELLINGTON, hist, night. In introducing ,tlie (hmiing Aim-nil on-lit, Hill in t-lut 11 oust! ill Representatives, Mr. K. V. I lea ley (Goal.. Wuhan) referred to t he. number of pet it inns addressed to the. House in support _of the proposals contained in it. He said that permission to telegraph bets to the totalisalor would enable the (lovernment to rolled, substantial additional revenue, in the vicinity of £230,000 a year, without auv cost ol collection. It would also give urgently necessary relief to racing and trotting dubs, and diminish the volume, of illegal betting. Referring to (lie proposal to remove Hie, restriction on the publication ol dividends, .Mr. Ilealv said it was absurd that newspapers should not he allowed to publish these figures, when it was possible in any town or village to ascertain some 10 minutes after a race had been run what, horses were tirst, second and third, and what bad been the dividends.
In advocating the introduction ot the double totalisalor, lie said that, the present prohibition against this machine operated definitely in favor of those laying odds illegallv. 'Pile bill was read a tirst. time.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18205, 28 September 1933, Page 4
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