GAMBLING BY CHINESE.
Sir, —That "the law is an ass" is once again forcibly brought home to us on reading the account of a recent police raid on a Chinese clubroom. We are a nation of hypocrites indeed. What heights of moral perfection are conjured up as ours, when Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in Court, declares, "We do not want to have Europeans going to these places. The Chinese must be taught not to gamble." At the same time the Government sanctions gambling. Away with such hypocrisy! First, let us put our own house in order. What with legal and illegal betting on horse racing, every day gambling on results of our national games of football, etc., and the increasing number of art unions, we are really seriously undermining the moral foundations of our national life. If we interfere with the Chinese, let us see our fellow-citizens of prosperous suburbs put their houses in Older. Whether at fan-tan in soma Chinese den or at bridge in the drawing rooms of the elite, gambling is none the less gambling. There is indeed at present a, law for the rich and a law for the poor. T.B.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20615, 14 July 1930, Page 12
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196GAMBLING BY CHINESE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20615, 14 July 1930, Page 12
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