SOUTH AFRICA.
A DRASTIC GAMING BILL. [By Telegraph.— Presa Association.—Copyright. ] CAPETOWN, Sept. 15. Tlie Union Government has introduced a drastic Bill restricting race meetings and 'prohibiting betting at any sports with the exception of horse racing, and then only at a racecourse by means of the totalisator. The Bill abolishes the business of bookmaking, prohibits the ■publication of ante-post betting or antepost information relating to races run either inside or outside the Union. The Government takes 2 per cent, of the gross takings of the totalisator, plus 2 per cent, of the profits.
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Southland Times, Issue 16841, 18 September 1911, Page 5
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