NEWSPAPER BOYS AND RACECOURSES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15861, 26 February 1912, Page 8

NEWSPAPER BOYS AND RACECOURSES.

TO THH EDITOR.

Sir, —I wish to draw tho attention of Christchuroh inhabitants, through your paper, to the evil caused by newspaper boys being allowed to sell their papers on the racecourses. Race time sees thousands of gamblers and swearers on the courses, and I ask is it right that our future manhood should be turned into gamblers and blasphemers. Fire cannot be tampered with, let alono the gambling curse. Tho boy nowspaper sellers are apt to listen to old men, who ought to know better, swearing and gambling. In time the newspaper boys will adopt swearing and gambling themselves, because they think old men ought to know, therefore they have reason to become young gamblers and swearers. It is to "be honed that those who have it in their power to prohibit bovß entering racecourses will do so.—l am, etc., REFORMER.