A NEW "RACKET"
POSITION OF HOTEL LICENSEES
The Christchurch Licensing Committee discussed the prevalence, as evidenced by recent prosecutions, of bookmaking in hotel bars. During the discussion a police official made this very astonishing and disturbing statemenb; " I have been advised tlhat bookmakers have gone to a new licensee with the request to continue calling in thei hotel, and on being refused they have told the licensee that they would empty his bar. . . In some cases it is perfectly clear that they have almost done so." This is a statement which ought to be elaborated. It means, or seems to mean, that some Christchurch hotel licensees are the victims of a peculiarly vicious " racket." As practised in t|he United State, racketeering is usually ah illegal method of fostering a legal entei"prise. In Christchurch, apparently, it is an illegal method of fostering an enterprise which is also illegal.—The Press, Christchurch.
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3556, 11 December 1934, Page 4
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149A NEW "RACKET" Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3556, 11 December 1934, Page 4
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