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Story: Horse and greyhound racing

Bookies at work

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Bookies at work

Sharply dressed bookmakers (bookies) take bets from punters during a summer race meeting at Ellerslie racecourse, Auckland, in 1910. That year, after anti-gambling agitation, bookies were banned, but many continued to operate illegally.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau, Sir George Grey Special Collections

Reference: AWNS-19110105-3-2

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Mary Mountier, Horse and greyhound racing – Betting, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38947/bookies-at-work (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mary Mountier, published 30 November 2012, updated 1 November 2015.