GAMBLING IN BRITAIN
HUGE SUM INVOLVED. LONDON. February 27. Not less than .£350,000,001) is estimated, in the annual report of the Christian Social Council Committee o.n Gambling, to have been involved last, year in horse-racing, greyhoumllacing, football pools and gaining machines. "A revival of the old games of ‘hcuse.y-housey’ and 'Bingo - are making a special appeal to housewives in working-class districts, it is staled. "It is a sad commentary on our' civilisation that, in the present tragic state of the world, large numbers of the people should adopt. Nero’s traditional role. While the world burns, they are. occupied with pools, pontoons, permutations and pin-tables. “Employe! s everywhere complain, legitimate business suffers, and national sport struggles with an im-uims which threatens to transform our playing fields into corrupting casinos. "The bitterest complaints, however. come from labour organisers, who find the workers preoccupied with (he pools, which have become their prime interest."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 April 1939, Page 3
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