Part of Orders of the Day — Dog Racecourse Betting (Temporary Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 March 1947.
Captain Arthur Marsden
, Chertsey
12:00,
21 March 1947
I take it that this is only permissive, and that if in some parts of the country it is found more convenient to open a track at noon it will be opened at that time, because the people concerned wish it to be opened at that time?
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