12 JANUARY 1924, Page 3

The report of the Select Committee of the House of

Commons on Betting was issued on Tuesday. The report is incomplete as the work of the Committee was cut short by the dissolution, but enough has been done for the guidance of those who may take up the work later. The majority of the Committee had just time to accept part of the draft report of their Chairman, Mr. Cautley, and thus to commit themselves to the opinion that a tax on betting is practicable. They did not go so far, however, as to say that it was desirable. Mr. Foot and his friends, in their Minority Report, deal with legislation which they regard as urgently necessary for the suppression of betting. Among other things, they would prohibit incitements to betting in the Press.