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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1926.
PERMITS FOR BOOKMAKERS,
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The Commissionera of Customs and Excise recently fasuod a pre- liminary notice explaining how the botting duty, which comes into force on November 1, will be oper ated.
The duty will apply to every bet rande with a bookmaker on any event of any kind, and each book maker will be required to take on- nually a certificate, for which a duty of £10 will be payable. Book- makers are advised to apply for a form of application as soon as pos sible.
With each application there- must be forwarded for fixing to the certificates a photograph of the up- plicant, and this must be approxim ately 3in. in size, of full face without hat and unmounted.
True 'Name,
The certificate will show the name and the trade name of the holder; and must be produced on demand by any authorised person.
A limited company will be re- quired to take out a cortificate in the registered name of that com pany. In addition any directors or employees of the company who may act as bookmakers on a race- course will be required to take out. personal certificates in their own names Each partner of a firm not being a limited company must have a personal certificate in his own дате.. Certificates will expire on October 31 in each year.
An entry certificate must be taken out annually by a bookmaker on payment of a duty of £10′iù respect of any premises used by him..
Duty will be chargeable at the rate of 2 per cent, of the amount stated in the case of bets made on. horse-racing event on a race- course on a day on which the rac ing takes place and when both the bookmaker and the backer are fi personal attendance on the ground.
In the case of every other bet made with a bookmaker the duty will be 3 per cent, of the amount staked.
There will be two methods by which a bookmaker may pay the betting duty:
Suretics.
By returns to the Commission- era, or By the use of revenue tickets.
Any bookmaker, whether, oper- ating in an office or on the course, may apply, to the commissioners for permission to pay by returna. As a condition of the grant of auch application the bookmaker will be required to give one or more sure- ties for the payment of duty. The sureties may be private individuals or an approved guarantee society. Under such an arrangement..a bookmaker will furnish, returna weekly of all bets received by him and pay the appropriate amount of duty weekly,
A bookmaker who wishes to enter into such
an arrangement should apply forthwith to the see- retary Custom House, London, E.C. 3.
Bookmakers who do not enter in- to an arrangement for the payment' of "the duty by means of returns must pay it by the purchase of revenue tickets. These tickets will be purchaseable in books of 50 in the following denominations:
18., 25, 28. 6d., 49., 59., 108., £1, £2, and £5.
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PLANS AGAIN REVIVED.
of the great Napoleon. There has shaw, actually obtained the char been a French company with ter for a tunnel undertaking, but. Duty will be payable on the
government concession since 1875, Queen Victoria and her military number of tickets. in the book at
and 4,000,000 francs worth of advisers wore hostile. Again, in the appropriate rate; for example
actual digging was done at San-1880, the Southeastern Railway book of 50 tickets for 2s, bets at
gatte up to 1880, under direction Company of England came to an the 2 per cent. rate will cost 25, and
of the eminent engineers, Ludovic understanding with the French a book of 50 tickets for 5s, bets at The cross-channel, railway and Breton (brother of the painter, company and undertook to get a the 3 per cent. rate will cost boat companies are planning to Jules Braten) and Albert Sartin- bill through Parliament. 85. 9d. and so on, The ticket will build a bridge from Dover to aux, chief technician of the Nort Lord Wolsley killed the project be automatically defaced on being Calais.
with a word: torn from the book.
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It is pointed out that the issue
Railroad Company.
The bridge is to be simply a In England, while the world "A tunnel road from France to was still on, a House of England," said Lord Wolaley, of a certificate to a bookmaker and tube, high in the air, on piles, for war the use by him or revenue tickets railway cars to run through, for Commons committee of sixty"would put England at the mercy for the duty do not connote any the mails and parcela between Liberals, sixty Conservatives, of a French invasion. But I Afteen Nationalists and five would have no objection to a change in the existing legal post-France and England.
Labour members agreed on a bridge.
tion as to betting contracts, nor do Anyone who, before the war,
motion which actually got before To-day English prejudice still they carry any Government guar- should have proposed, such a high the House remembers the words of Lord antee of the character or financial bridge of metallic tubes would position of the bookmaker.
have been laughed at as a vision
"Resolved, That present circum-Wolsley, and that railway com The use by bookmakers on note-ary. At present the companies have stances demontrate the great ad-panies, concluding that the tunnel paper in circulars, or advertise been formed to sturdy the problem vantages which would have re- has no real chance in sight, re- ments of any statements implying by the great and continually resulted for the United Kingdom member Lord Welsley favoured a The bridge can be built in four official guarantee of bono-fides growing success of the air lines, and its allies from the existence bridge.
of a funnel under the channel will not be allowed:
Compete With Air Lines. Consequently, it is important that care, at a cost now estimated at the plans be Immediately com-some $20,000,000-and can be pay Rapid non-seasick transit to compete with the Bir lines can be plated and the construction of the ing dividends sight or ten yours In fact at the present cost of obtained only by means of bridge tunnel be undertaken at the end bofore a tunnel could be unished i sary labour can be procured." labour, etc., nobody knows just or tunnel, and the tunnel seems of the war, as soon as the neces
how soon a tunnel could be finish- family condemned by persistent
ed, or at what cost. From ten to English prejudice, that "England
During Norwegian air manoou- res off Christiansand two hydra, planea about to land collided, with the result that one sank immediate ly, The pilot, Lieutenant Troy,
Insular Prejudice.
almost
But English Insular prejudice fifteen years are claimed at be was seriously injured, The other must romain an island!" machine was only slightly damagThe French have been anxious still stood in the way, as it did tween $200,000,000 and
to bore the tunnel since the time when the engineer, Sir John Hawk-double.
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