THE GAMBLING EVIL.
Napier, May 12. Counsel for Shalford, who came up for sentence at the Supreme Court for the theft of postal notes, said it was supposed that the prisoner had been led into gambling; habits. The Chief Justice said that1 the gambling habit was one which unfortunately was not dealt with as it should be, and its evil effects were not recognised sufficiently by citizens in many districts of the Colony. Gambling was going on habitually, and people who ought to "be the leaders of society did not seem to see what was meant by the yearly sacrifice to this molooh. of numbers of our young men.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 111, 13 May 1902, Page 3
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109THE GAMBLING EVIL. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 111, 13 May 1902, Page 3
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