THE GAMBLING EVIL.
VIEWS OF MR FOWLDS. ■"Unhid Press Association, i WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Mr Fowlds, Minister of Education, delivered an address yesterday to the Congregational Union on gambling, declaring that tlio evil was as widespread in the Dominion as in other countries. He said that from 1892 to 1907 the totalisator investments had increased from £506,078 to £1,837,095, while in the same period racing permits had been reduced from 234 to 139. Anyone, he said, who, gave attention to the subject must admit that gambling was a canker responsible for more degradation, misery, and crime than any other evil we had in our midst, He continued to say that they were sometimes told that all business was gambling — that farming was gambling; but talk like that was the veriest twaddle. Tho \ very worst form of gambling, to his mind, was that which was being indulged in with regard to land speculations.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 12 February 1908, Page 3
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