20 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 3

We continue to receive letters in support of a tax

on betting. Through want of space we are unable to publish most of them. Let us say, however, that there is much approval of our proposal that a tax should be confined, for the present at all events, to credit betting and racecourse betting. Such a tax would leave the betting laws untouched. There would be no more " recognition " than there is now. The only difference would be that betting, which is already legal, would be taxed and to that extent discouraged.