Protest Against Attempt To Legalise Bookmaking
(P.A.) * DUNEDIN. This Day. A strong protest against any attempt to legalise bookmaking in New Zealand was carried at the Dominion conference of the Methodist Church, after a resolution to the effect that bookmakers who persistently broke the law should be imprisoned had been defeated. The incidence of gambling was described as having provoked a grave situation, and thelconference supported the view of Mr. C. E. Taylor (Feilding) that the fundamental problem was the loose attitude adopted by many people to illicit forms of gambling'.
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Northern Advocate, 5 March 1945, Page 2
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