SEAMY SIDE OF SPORT
The racing clubs derive a very considerable revenue from the bookmakers, probably quite enough to compensate them for the amount of money that is; diverted from the t-otalisator, and it is their clear duty to see that tlie men they license are decent members of their calling) and posessed of some means. They may bring the law into disrepute by paying no proper attention to these matters, but if Parliament should be called upon to interfere again it may take it into its head to effect reforms that would he still less acceptable to the clubs. The totalisator does not stand so well with a majority of the electors that its friends can afford to invite a legislative review of its position. —“Lyttelton Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2483, 23 April 1909, Page 6
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128SEAMY SIDE OF SPORT Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2483, 23 April 1909, Page 6
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