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BETTING.
The Totalizator.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 15 (28), Con- clusion 8.)
ADMINISTRA- TION OF JUSTICE BILL.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 16 (28), Con- clusion 10).
THE DOG RACING BILL.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 27 (28), Con- clusion 2.)
8. The Cabinet were informed that, in spite
of much deliberate obstruction, the Racecourse
Betting Bill was likely to emerge from Grand
Committee almost at once. A very large number of
amendrents had been introduced to meet the views
of the Treasury and the Home Office, and it was
urged that the Government were bound to give
facilities for the passage of the Bill and even
to put on the Whips, This course was also urged
as desirable from a Treasury point of view in
order to render it possible to deal next year
with the present evasion of the Betting Tax.
The Cabinet agreed
That, subject to it being found possible to obtain the necessary Parliamentary time, facilities should be given for the passage of the Racecourse Betting Bill, and the Whips should be put on.
The Prime Minister undertook to discuss this matter with the Chief Whip, and he was asked also not to overlook the great importance of the Administration of Justice Bill and the Dog Racing Bill.
2. Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1,
June 27, 1928.
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