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Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16653, 19 November 1925, Page 10

Commenting on the law which forbids publication'of totallsator dividends in newspapers, the Christchurch Star says:—-"Those who can do their betting at the racecourse are able to see at a glance what dividend has been declared, but the great army of betters who stay away i'rom the raceoourse, or bet on distant race meetings, have no means of finding out promptly and accurately what dividend any horse has paid unless they get information from the bookmakers, who, in turn, have a system of telegraphing the figures from the most obscure race meetings in New Zealand. These outside bettors, precluded from lelgraphing money to the totalisator, are therefor thrown right into the arms of the bookmakers, who have taken care to consolidate their position with the public by scrupulous accuracy in the figures they supply. The law, in effect, drives all nonracecourse betting into bookmaking channels, and makes the bookmaker the only reliable and easily accessible source from which to obtain betting information. And the absurdity of the lav/ and its administration is realised when ij, is stated that although a newspaper correspondent may not include in his telegraphed report the amount of the dividend, this information is telegraphed daily to bookmakers, and is cabled regularly to Australia and published in newspapers which reach-New Zealand by the next mail." A DREAM SMOKE. There am millions of smokers throughout the world io whom RichBest tobacco lias a particular appeal. (Is rich ripeness, its smooth taste, its exquisite peaceful mildness enrnbinf 1 to make it a smoke one dreams of. Money can buy no better tobacco.