THE BETTING TAX.
STRIKE OF BOOKMAKERS. "WAGERING TO BE RESUMED. SATISFIED WITH PROTEST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Nov. 5. Tattersall's bookmakers again picketed the Windsor racecourse yesterday and betting has been held up throughout practically the whole country. A large force of bookmakers at Paddington railway station, wearing rosettes, distributed leatlcts appealing to British sportsmen, as a protest against the "unfair" tax on the bookmakers' turnover, to refrain from attending racecourses until the tax has been made workable for everyone.
The leading bookmakers held a conference anil decided to be satisfied with their protest, and betting is to be resumed at Newbury to-day.
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Waikato Times, Volume 101, Issue 16946, 6 November 1926, Page 7
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