HOW TO SAVE A MILLION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20959, 24 August 1931, Page 13

HOW TO SAVE A MILLION.

Sir. —A representatlve committee is srt~ tiric to-day to consider the bleak financial outlook, which has sometluag' more than a war-time look about it. I have no desire to be tedious, tot I wish to repeat that the economy which • would be f«tt immediaiely and for which jastice cries aloud is the abolition of those criminals tie bookmakers. Lotteries are their understudy and sines Egypt has began to rival Dublin, the day of the lottery may _be ending.. ■ 'He- bookmakers are parasites sacking the financial blood oi the nation and destroying the moral energy and the integrity of thousands. There' is no listless fellow with the absentee look behind the counter e£ the big store, there is no worried clerk who pays furtive visits to the lanes of. this city but he is a pigeon being plucked feather by feather. There is a" crop of impending scandals ripening just now There always is. There is also the steady drain of money away from trade and" from industry to the swollen coffers of these goessers, who often en ouch are welsh ers, too. Their performances are fearful and wonderful They are served by telephones and some of them specially mysterious telephones. The police know and if the police wera armed with plastic powers and were backed by the Post and Telegraph Department this rannxng sore might be healed What is wanted is for Parliament, alarmed about the financial outlook, to give the police war-time powers to root out fhese social pasts. There was a time iu 1311 when Auckland business men took a band in securing better earning laws. The time has returned. Let those who love their country speak uvj. And why should not Rotary lead ? J. J. XOSTH.