Licensed Bookmakers?
CONFIDENT PREDICTIONS. BETTING FACILITIES. art unions may go. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. Will bookmakers again be licensed to ply their trade in New Zealand ? The answer given to that question by some visitors to Christchurch during the holidays was a confident “yes.” Further, according to one very confident prediction, it will be made legally possible for a punter in any town in the Dominion to go into the official “betting shop” and make a bet on any race anywhere. These are big changes in the Gaming Act that the Government is expected to include in an amending bill when it has time to give to this question.
The authorisation of a doubles totalisator is another and even more confident prediction, and the authorisation of the publication of di\idcMids is taken as a matter of course. Art unions will be abolished, it is stated, and their place will be taken bv four or six big “sweeps” a year, the profits of which will be used for the relief of distress.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19686, 18 April 1936, Page 3
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173Licensed Bookmakers? Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19686, 18 April 1936, Page 3
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