The Bookmakers

Southland Times, Issue 12010, 14 December 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Bookmakers

DUT’KXLTT AT AI M.'K [.A ND. Per United Pres* Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 12Thu conditions imposed by the Auckland ■Racing Club concerning Ihc issue of licenses to bookmakers for the summer iiK-eling wuj. discussed at a meeting "i the Ancklnml Bookmakers' Association. As a result the following telegram was despatched to ' the Attoruey-UeJieral : ' A deputation of bookmakers wailed on Ihe Auckland Racing Club, the commit leu of which expressed its intention of dealing' fairly with the bookmakers. To our surprise the Club has framed conditions with which it is impossible to comply, and several of which are beyond the power of the committee to enforce. Ihe bookmakers are anxious to avoid any unpleasantness or anything pertaining to disorder nt the forthcoming meeting, and ask yo«r intervention towards accomplishment of tide desirable end. A clerk is charged Td, and a small strip of ground is set apart for bet t mg, A -bookmaker under the Club's ride ti will probably have to cease betting ten minutes before the time specified in the Act."

The following reply wua received : —" t have wired the secretary oi the Auckland Pacing Cluli informing him of the purport of your telegram and asking ior a reply. 1 will wire you later.—(Signed) J. G. Findlay.” O.J.U. DECISION. DUNEDIN, Dec. 12. At, a meeting of the committee oi the Dunedin Jockey Club to-day it was decided to license book-makers at a fee H * T2ti per day tor the summer meeting, ona clerk to be allowed for each bookmaker provided such dork is not a bookmaker himself ; -no bookmaker or clerk to bo alloui.-d on the grand stand or lawn ; no bookmaker’s clerk, to he allowed to call odds ; bookmakers to restrict betting to a place set aside for the purpose. AN AUSTRALIAN ASTONISHED. PALAIERSTON NORTH, Dec. 12. Sir W. H. J udkins, the well known .Melbourne reformer and editor o* the Aits trait tin Review of Reviews, interviewed by the Maaawatu Daily Times to-night, expressed his amazement at the licensing ol Imokmakers in N.Z., and at any moni" ber of the Reform Party voting f « r » ucn a proposal. He said that, knowing tl.p evil o-f bookmakers as they did in Australia, the Reform Party there endeavoured in every way to put them down, and he was extremely astonished to hear that members who prefoss to be opposed to gambling should have voted tor the clause. Otherwise he uommouded the Premier’s act.