Casinos in N.Z.
Sir, — The National Travel Association wants a casino in New Zealand. I hope that the Government does not consent. Of the parasitical spirit that wants to make a winning but is indifferent about giving service there is enough already. More gambling will just make more of it. If this is the price for having more tourists then let us do without them. The exploitive attitude that goes with milking tourists is further community loss. No number of swollen bank accounts restores lost community character and neither does money taxed off gambling and handed back in grants to community concerns. The damage would be no less if New Zealanders themselves were to become the main patrons of the casino. If a government despairs of any community-mindedness and itself resorts to trafficking in anti-community greed we are becoming lost indeed. — Yours, etc., ALEX WATSON. March 27, 1980.
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