POSSIBLE DANGER IN MORE LEISURE
Church Urges Ministers to be Vigilant (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, November 18. The possible effects of the increased leisure being given under the Government’s recent labour legislation, particularly in inducing a demand for increased gambling facilities, were referred to in a report presented to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church this evening by the public questions committee. Pressure was being brought to bear ou the Government to increase gambling facilities, said the Rev. J. Thomson Macky, in presenting the report. He did not criticise the recent legislation of the Government as such. He said, however, that it might result in a grave increase in gambling, drinking, and other vices. 11. had already resulted in a demand for more gambling facilities, aud all attempts to increase such facilities should be resisted.
A motion to call the attention of Ministers aud office-bearers to the increased need for providing people with opportunities for spending their leisure hours in healthful recreation’ aud to exhort: them to use every endeavour to prevent au increase iu gambling facilities was carried.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 15
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