OFF-COURSE BETTING
AUCKLAND METHODISTS’ OPPOSITION (New Zealand Press Association; AUCKLAND, August 30. The establishment of the off-course betting scheme means that the Church must give even stronger emphasis to the teaching of the evils of gambling, says the report of the qublic questions committee presented to the Auckland Methodist Synod. The report adds that there is a great danger that unless this is done forms of betting approved by the State and accepted by society may gradually be adopted as in accord with the Christian ethic.
The report emphasises “two aspects of the evil":—(1) Hie need for Christian people to resist the temptation of becoming in any way the servants of the off-course betting scheme by not yielding to the attraction of large financial rewards that are and will be offered; (2) the dangers of young people learning the gambling habit through the use of the readity-avail-ab’e postal betting forms. The Svnod adonted a recommendation urging ministers to educate their congregations on the evils of gamblin' l and the dangers of becoming involved in the off-course betting scheme.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 6
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