THE GAMING BILL.
OUTCRY AGAINST IT. TROTTING PRESIDENT'S WARNING (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Referring to the Gaming Bill, recently introduced in Parliament, at the annual meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club the president said the outcry against It from the extremist section should serve as a warning to sportsmen. They had been taking things all too easily in the past. There was no limit to the danger of extremist influence in the Legislature. If sporting people did not take a greater interest in the calibre of Parliamentary representation for their various districts they might find themselves deprived of their liberties in the near future. The present Gaming Bill was an innocuous measure; it aimed at" the better control of one of the .problems surrounding. racing. It could not do any harm/ and might prove beneficial It certainly did not justify the outbursts of opposition that had greeted it? appearance.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 211, 7 September 1927, Page 11
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