UNLAWFUL BETTING
ITS VOLUME REDUCED. THE LAW TO BE ENFORCED. GOVERNMENT IN EARNEST. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, Thursday. The Minister of Justice, Hon. E. P. Lee, staled yesterday that lie was aware that unlawful betting had not been stopped, although he thought its volume had been reduced. The Government certainly was in earnest in tlie enforcement of the law and he pointed out that tlie Gaming Amendment Act of last session provided penalties fur men who bet with bookmakers as well as for tlie bookmakers themselves. He would be sorry to see any of New Zealand’s sportsmen go to gaol, but tlie law was there to be observed, and it might be necessary to provide examples. Mr said that it was not in the public interest that young men in offices and factories should be crowding after bookmakers on working days, or spending their money and time on race meetings all over the Dominion. He was one of those who enjoy races, • but he thought that Parliament had been well advised when it decided that betting should be confined to racecourses.
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Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 5
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181UNLAWFUL BETTING Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14538, 9 December 1920, Page 5
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