The Quarterly Review, Volumes 250-251William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1928 |
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... 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 ...
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... . 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 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 335.
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... 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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