SPORTS AWAKE!

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4591, 17 May 1922, Page 2

SPORTS AWAKE!

In tbeso worrying and strenuous days, it is certainly desirable that wholesome outdoor sport and amusement bo encouraged. However, there seems to bo a section of tho public wlio wish to curtail the innocent pleasures of tlio people as a whole. Their efforts arc apparently often successful, a prominent instance being afforded by the banishment of bookmakers. Howovcr, tliQ populace—which is always slow to move, but which takes a considerable amount of stopping once it lias started—is at last realising that things are not just as tlioy should ho. A petition to have the Gaming Law revised, so that bookmakers be allowed to operate on racecourse again, is being circulated in all parts of tho Dominion, and is mooting with very gratifying support. This potition points out tho great advantages of licensing bookmakers, chief among which are the facilities offered to poorer people to enjoy the “sport of kings,” and the now fields of revenue opened to the Government. Only by united effort can success in routing tlio “kill-joys” be achieved, and all sports are therefore asked to append their signatures to the petition, which can be seen and signed almost anywhere—act- now. When petitions are filled up they should he promptly-returned to Box 1011, Wellington. • (C 7.)