WAR AND HORSE-RACING.
Sir,To think that in the present time of stress and trouble the gambling mania has not declined, but is constantly increasing, is certainly not pleasant to contemplate. The Government has set up an Efficiency Board, to try and conduct the available labour of the country into more economical and profitable channels, and it is to be hoped tney may be able to accomplish some good. But it seems almost a hopeless task to try and stop a few leaks at one end whilst at the other end the people's means, and their energies in a depraved form, are allowed to . rush through like a flood, purely it is high time to greatly curtail this particular form of " sport" that has go little to recommend it, but whose chief results are neurotic women and girls, aping apprentices, and unsteady workmen., Joseph Flanagan.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16502, 30 March 1917, Page 7
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