The Quarterly Review, Volume 250William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1928 |
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Page 332
... Betting Duty , that he was surprised to find how many high authorities there were who , opposed to the Totalisator twelve months previously , had changed their opinion and were urging that it should be adopted . That statement was in ...
... Betting Duty , that he was surprised to find how many high authorities there were who , opposed to the Totalisator twelve months previously , had changed their opinion and were urging that it should be adopted . That statement was in ...
Page 333
... Betting Houses , and the provisions of that measure have to this day prevented anything in the nature of organised betting on our racecourses . The statute , inter alia , made it illegal to keep a place for the purpose of betting with ...
... Betting Houses , and the provisions of that measure have to this day prevented anything in the nature of organised betting on our racecourses . The statute , inter alia , made it illegal to keep a place for the purpose of betting with ...
Page 334
... betting . Mr Churchill did not then go the ' whole hog ' and modify the inhibitory clauses of the Act of 1853 because to have attempted to do so would , it was supposed , have endangered his primary purpose of obtaining revenue from betting ...
... betting . Mr Churchill did not then go the ' whole hog ' and modify the inhibitory clauses of the Act of 1853 because to have attempted to do so would , it was supposed , have endangered his primary purpose of obtaining revenue from betting ...
Page 335
... . It is largely because racing in other countries is on a highly prosperous footing , thanks to the revenue obtained by a levy on betting , that foreigners can afford to offer the big sums they do for THE TOTALISATOR 835.
... . It is largely because racing in other countries is on a highly prosperous footing , thanks to the revenue obtained by a levy on betting , that foreigners can afford to offer the big sums they do for THE TOTALISATOR 835.
Page 336
... betting arena . In a speech he made at the Gimcrack Club dinner at York in 1921 , the late Lord Jersey , one of the ablest and most far - seeing of counsellors the Turf has ever had , said that he recognised fully the soundness of the ...
... betting arena . In a speech he made at the Gimcrack Club dinner at York in 1921 , the late Lord Jersey , one of the ablest and most far - seeing of counsellors the Turf has ever had , said that he recognised fully the soundness of the ...
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