THE GAMING LAW.
If the Attorney-General proceeds by the way he threatened once to travel, and refuses totalisator permits, wo should not care to ensure -his political life for a large sum. The general public are not too fond of the bookie, cannot understand why he was ever brought back to the course from which he had been safely banished, and find him no end of a nuisance when ho is there. There is plenty of evidence that the aim professed by the men who brought down the amending law—namely to purify betting and confine it to the racecourses—has not been attained, and not by any fault of the racing clubs with regard to licensing the bookies. The fact that the bookies have had a great opportunity to do well on the course, and the course alone, cannot be gainsaid, any more than the fact that the street betting and all other evils which the opening of the opportunity aforesaid was to have dispelled are in greater force than ever. The amending Act, then, lias broken down. Let it be repealed.— “Southland News.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2516, 1 June 1909, Page 6
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183THE GAMING LAW. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2516, 1 June 1909, Page 6
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