ANT-GAMBLING.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10579, 7 October 1910, Page 1

ANT-GAMBLING.

(Per Press Association.) _ ; Auckland, October. 6." £ 'Tjbe Citizens' Anti-Gambling Com--rtiittee 1 lias wired the Auckland memxhe Wellington Citizens! -Comr mittee, > protesting against the delay, in Parliament over the ■■■Anti-Gambling (Bill,-and- urging, strong representations on -the, subject. v. . Dunedin, October 6. ■ At the Baptist. Conference to-day a motion ivas adopted as follows—"That the ■ New Zealand Baptist Conference desires respectfully to remind the Government of the extreme urgency for anti-gambling legislation this session in view of the fact- that we have been assured that we have thirty times as •many race days to our population as England lias, and 50 per cent, more than New South Wales has; in view also of the fact that wo gamble 100 per cent, more per capita on the totalisator than South Australians; in view also of the national outcry and the recent resolutions iu Parliament. The Conference believes it will be a real calamity, if the session is. passed witTiouWlrastie legislation being placed upon the Statute Book."