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BOOKMAKERS BOW TO THE LAW. An Auckland. New Zealand, correspondent says: "The o bookmakers and their clerks having been 1. aired front the race course by the new law making the totalizator tin exclusive method of betting, much curiosity was evinced as to whether any of their number would seek to contest the position during the progress of the Auckland Racing Clubs autumn meeting. One man. well known in Melbourne, who l hud lieon conducting a big bu-inoss here prior to the new gaming act ooining into force, showed fight, but. though lie also iiguicii B8 the owner of a horse contesting, the Auckland Racing Club ordered him to Withdraw, anil the big man and his clerk were duly escorted outside tie gates. There is some talk of a test case, but iin-t people smile at the idea."
