RECENT SPREAD OF GAMBLING
♦ WANGANUI PRESBYTERIANS’ PROTEST (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WANGANUI, June 9. Concern at the spread of gambling in New Zealand, and especially at the Order-in-Council allowing the holding of art unions to assist patriotic funds, is expressed in a statement drawn up by a commission of Wanganui ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church. The statement claims that the appeal for funds for the sick and wounded should stand entirely on its own merits. “We are confident that the public will support the appeal to give without the enticement of. winning a prize. The generosity of a large section of the community has already proved this. “The Presbytery deplores the supposed necessity to stimulate our people’s generosity in a patriotic cause by appealing to the base motive of selfishness, and calls upon members and adherents of the Presbyterian Church to give to patriotic funds by straightout gifts and not through art unions, lotteries, or any other gambling devices.’,’
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 11 June 1940, Page 5
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