TEN MILLIONS IN BETTING.
SUICIDE. THEFT, BANKRUPTCY, AND BOOKMAKERS. The Anti-Gambling League proposes to introduce into the House of Lords this session a Bill of Penalties for various gambling offences by way of opening the road to moredrastic reforms. In a statement just issued, the secretary of the league declares that £10,000,000 per annum is spent on betting, of which huge sum the working classes contribute £5.000.000. To enable them to do this 20,000 " bookmakers'' have come into existence, and '"all are doing well." It is also averred that 75 per cent, of our post office robberies come from the incentive of betting, while two-thirds of our suicides and bankruptcies are directly attributable to the same passion.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11644, 4 May 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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117TEN MILLIONS IN BETTING. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11644, 4 May 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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