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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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