GAMBLING.
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—You bewail the facfc that the spirib of gamblit.;; oxisbs to euch an extent in the colony. Quito so, that spirit of hasting to get rich pervades modern society to an extent wa Jittlo dream of until we sib down calmly and think the niatiier out. First we flee it in commercial life. Do we nob find our merchanbs baying large quantities of a commodity they expect in a few months to become scarce. Is this not a species of gambling? Next we see it in our very amusements. Why ib seams impossible now to got up a day's oub door sports withoub offering the public the chance of winning a house or grand piano in addition to enjoying a day's spors in exchange for a " Colonial Robert," Then take our goldfields. How much gambling goes on among those who have the meaKS to do ib. A piece of ground is found to contain a reef or two, it is syndicated ; how soon are thore plenty ot men found ready to buy promoters' shnroe, What for? To develop the ground? Nob much : ilcafc a company, place thirty or forty thousand shares on the market ab an advance of 100 per cent, on wbao they cost, and then clear them oub as fast as possible. 1 will not mention tha evil as ib exists in ! religions donominebions and Government departments, it is too palpable to everyone, bub will close with the concluaion that since gambling has such a hold on the public, ib would be far wiasr to legalise consultations in New Zealand and keep the money in the colony rather than compel us to send ib to Australia, for I am convinced there is no more gin in putting a pound in the Melbourne Cup with a hope of winning thirty thousand timn there would be in giving the Eight Hour* 5 Demonstration Committee a shilling for a chance to win the house as firßt prize,—l am, etc., v Tiios. Dalrymple.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 294, 11 December 1896, Page 4
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