THE GAMING BILL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 9

THE GAMING BILL.

CLERGYMAN'S f •' ' /'' " ft\'A '}..;4"v ".'a (PBESS ASSOCU.TIO* TK4SGMII.) ..• "Vr , ■■ ■ T J ■ • - . '*'. : .^s! •WELLINGTON, September 1., > ' That the Bill-to-legalise tion of racing' dividends and; tto|.teaa»inissiop of' investments which <is, J ed to come bpfore Parliament has as ~ its ■ sole aim th& taking .financial benefit was' the conientwatofc t the Rev. J. B. Blandpni in'iai i»j!«oiU/ at St. John's Presbyterian Church.? ' Mr Blanehard <.the?isoatention that it would eliminate se*book; ; <_ maker was an excuse," not'a conyictionjlj'put forward to give- 1 tie "Bill ths ap|}Wr- : >;'* ance of righteousness send prtvide to the conscience" of wobblers, amoifgthe ' , - ' The real object of IJl ® Bill was; to put money into the oftxacing.., clubs. If their demands were acceded v to'the results would be most injurious. The publication of dividends 1 provide the incitement, and the" telegraph office an—easy opportunity ior anybody to invest on any race rufl.jmy- C where in the.' Dominion. -It required little ' imagination to realise ioW'-eijor? , mously. the volume. of betting ,wojili| be ■ • ■ , » On the majority.. of the' working . days of each week the telegraph pffice - throughout the, laiid would be a; huge . betting machine.• . The fact that; the' • bookmaker ; was. already using the telephone and the telegraph,was -no justi-, ncation for the same Abuse being: perpetrated by the totalisptor. , The bookmaker's illegal parasitism', could, be stopped by .the Commissioner : of Police if, he < were gwena* free- Jiand * .in dealing both with the bookmakefrandthe interesting: names which coul&bo found on the bookmaker's records. j' Gambling was : already on the way to white-anting the public and -dociali life of the Dominion. - " v <r