STATE LOTTERIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23226, 21 December 1938, Page 17

STATE LOTTERIES

Sir, —I was very interested in "Another Citizen's" letter, because he puts his finger right on the spot. "Why, not horse racing? There is a lot of talk by church dignitaries and religious bodies, etc., but none of them ever mentions horse racing, the fountain-head of ail gambling. At a race meeting a man has half a dozen or more bets in the afternoon and nothing under os. Some years ago .Miss Elsie Morton wrote an article on the reason of the average man for taking a ticket, and found, after inquiries, that the idea was usually to be able to help someone else, if L remember rightly; the tramcar conductor wished to give his "missus" a nice surprise. Let those people who object to the poor man's little flutter begin at the real source of gambling, namely, racing, but I am afraid this would involve most members of the congregations, and that would not do. The teetotallers might just as well advocate the suppression of beer but allow the sale of whisky and brandy to go on. A Third Citizen.