GAMBLING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 2

GAMBLING

REMARKS BY PRESIDENT OF W.CT.U. (BT lELEQRtPH,—FIUSSS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, sth Match. Dealing with gambling, the following remarks were made in the president s address to the W C.T.U. Congress :-~ "As we expected, the racing fraternity made another effort last session to get Parliament to pass into law a Bill increasing tho number of race days by thirty, in a country already over-sup-plied, and we are amazed that the House could find time to discuss such a Bill when important business, affecting the general welfare of the community, was crowded out. As we aro convinced that gambling iB inimical to thebest interests of the people, and likely to become a social cancer unless its growth can be stopped, we must—as our late beloved president advised us at last convention—continue to protest against any effort for lessening the restrictions on gambling, and we must use all legitimate means to eradicate the gambling evil from the Dominion, and to abolish the totalisator,"

At tho quarterly meeting of the Wnnd Bay Lodge, U.A.0.D., No. 57, Bro. K. T. Bailey, A.D., presided over a good nWenuaneo of ofl'icoiß and members. P.D.P. Bro. J. W. Collins and J.P.A. Bro. C. Perry wore elected trustees of the lodge. IWo members wore readmitted into the Ordrr by Br. R. T. Bailey, A.D., and six tubseribew wero got for tho Druids' GtMsctte, A vote of thanks was passed to A.D. Bro. Hubinstein and V.A. Bro. Abel, of tho Pacific Lodge, for their attendance tmd lor acting as scruimoem during the eleelion of triwtoeß. Bro. Rubinstein thanked the lodge for the vote of thanks, and urg^d all \nembcrs (o become membofe ol tho ""-nids 1 Sports aj^d Pastimes' Agsocia'tion.