Parliamentary Papers, Volume 5H.M. Stationery Office, 1923 - Bills, Legislative |
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Page xxxvi
... average number of bets made by an average backer per week are 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 12 or 20. He then took the winter , 1922 , edition of Ruff's Guide ( which gives authoritatively the results of all the flat races for 1922 ) , and ...
... average number of bets made by an average backer per week are 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 10 , 12 or 20. He then took the winter , 1922 , edition of Ruff's Guide ( which gives authoritatively the results of all the flat races for 1922 ) , and ...
Page xxxvii
... average nett profit of £ 160 - a ridiculously low income - will give the £ 1,600,000 ; while if there are only 5.000 the average nett profits on Your Committee's estimate are only £ 320 , and they cannot believe that the bookmakers work ...
... average nett profit of £ 160 - a ridiculously low income - will give the £ 1,600,000 ; while if there are only 5.000 the average nett profits on Your Committee's estimate are only £ 320 , and they cannot believe that the bookmakers work ...
Page xxxviii
... average profit does not exceed 2 per cent . of the turnover . Taking a man who takes £ 600 a week , they believe that his actual nett profits on an average are not more than £ 10 or possibly £ 12 a week . For the street bookmaker it is ...
... average profit does not exceed 2 per cent . of the turnover . Taking a man who takes £ 600 a week , they believe that his actual nett profits on an average are not more than £ 10 or possibly £ 12 a week . For the street bookmaker it is ...
Page xli
... average stakes are now diminishing , due no doubt to the decrease and lack of wages , there is now , five years after the War , no 6198-9 ; decrease in the number of persons betting , but an increase . And , in fact there is ...
... average stakes are now diminishing , due no doubt to the decrease and lack of wages , there is now , five years after the War , no 6198-9 ; decrease in the number of persons betting , but an increase . And , in fact there is ...
Page 23
... average amount of bets done in this street betting ? -The aain portion is from sixpence to half - a - crown . 376. And , in your experience , on the arrest of a man for betting what would be the greatest number of bets on the slips that ...
... average amount of bets done in this street betting ? -The aain portion is from sixpence to half - a - crown . 376. And , in your experience , on the arrest of a man for betting what would be the greatest number of bets on the slips that ...
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12 July agent amongst amount of betting backer betting duty betting houses betting office bookmaker's carry cash betting Cecil Wilson cent certainly Chairman Committee Continued course credit betting credit bookmaker David Grenfell deal difficulty district evidence evil fact flat racing football Forestier-Walker gambling Gershom Stewart give horse horse racing increase Jockey Club July large number legalised maker matter mean ment moral Morgan Jones odds offence opinion pari-mutuel penalty person PETER GREEN police practically premises present profit question race meeting racecourse Rawlinson ready money betting regard registration revenue Ring ROBERT CALDER Sir Alfred Butt Sir Beddoe Rees Sir George Hamilton Sir Henry Norman Sir JOHN PEDDER slips stamp starting price street bookmaker suggest suppose Tattersall's tax on betting tell thing tickets ting tion to-day totalisator TREVOR BIGHAM turnover