THE GAMING ACT.
The deputation who waited on the acting-Prime Minister in respect to the possible developments connected with the proposed Tattersall’s Club undoubtedly had at their back the spirit of the Gaming Act of a couple of sessions back. Gambling on horse-racing under it was to be confined' to the racecourses. The Government, however, must have realised long ere this that their very unwise action in licensing the bookmaker defeated their own’ professed purpose. The bookmaker to-day is in :a stronger position than ever, and there is probabty as much gambling away form the course as ever there was. Worse than that, the army of undesirable hangers-on to the sport has grown largely in conseqxxonce^fJtllQ,;protection • afforded the attention law. We hay© djj aspect of the pose of Ministers to Occasions, and will petition on previous -with -some emphasis vive the subjtng G f Parliament later during the sitph© Dominion.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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150THE GAMING ACT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2558, 20 July 1909, Page 7
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