WEEK-END FLUTTERS
GAMBLERS AT BOULOGNE TRIPS ACROSS THE CHANNEL. Gamblers from Britain are causing grave concern to the authorities at Boulogne, on the French Channel coast. Of the thousands of British visitors who land in France every week, hundreds, it has been discovered, go over solely for a flutter at the numerous casinos which have sprung up in Normandy and Brittany. Many are people of the working class type who arrive with week-end tickets and frequently lose more money than they can afford. “ The idea of these casinos at holiday resorts was that visitors could inchilgein a little holiday flutter if they felt like it,” a French official said lately. “ Now, it looks as though week-end was rapidly becoming a systemised business with many Englishmen. “Wo get people coining over here weekend after week-end who are simply actuated by a get-ricb-qnick dream. They gamble heavily and often go back without a penny in their pockets.; “Almost every day,” it was added, “we get appeals from people who have gambled away all their money and are stranded.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21386, 14 July 1931, Page 10
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176WEEK-END FLUTTERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21386, 14 July 1931, Page 10
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