DUNEDIN NOTES.
(By TEK.CBArir —Svkoi.kl to The Post.l DUNEDIN, This Day. It is currently reported in Roxburgh district thai the Government intends to thmw open the Ormngladc run in tho interests of closer settlement, and with that object stops are aho to bo taken to acquire the homestead biock, which contuins some really choice land. Thero is a further report current that in tho same neighbourhood the owner of a. largo freehold) has decided to cut it up shortly into suitable sized areas for sale on easy conditions. The executive of the Council of Churches highly approves the provisions of the recent Gaming Act, and appreciates the good results already attained, which are "undoubtedly in the moral interests of the people, but regrets that a legal status has been given to bookmakers, and that the lotalisator is allowed to remain a legal instrument for gambling."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 149, 20 December 1907, Page 2
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