GAMING AMENDMENT.
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES' PROTBBT. "TrAgic and damaging grip on LIFE." *(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN* Friday.
the executive of the Council of Christian Congregations to-day unanimously passed the following" resolution :—-"That this executive voices a strong protest against the Gaming Amendment Bill, which has been introduced in Parliament, the aims of which are to facilitate and thus greatly encourage and increase gambling in the Dominion by allowing tofalisator investments to be telegraphed to club secretaries, removing, restrictions, on. the publication of dividends in "connection with such forms of gambling through the totalisator and removing the prohibition which at present exists against the use of the 'double' totalisator. The effect of these proposals t if .carried into law, will be to intensity the gambling evil, which already has and. damaging vfrip "pon the life:-of . the. conn munitv."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 12
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137GAMING AMENDMENT. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 12
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