GAMBLING FACILITIES.
CHRISTCHURCH, August 18. At a meeting of the Council of Churches to-night the Rev. J. J. North said ho had boon informed that efforts would bo made next session to increase tho totalisator permits, especially to country clubs. Thero were alarming developments in connection with tho whole matter of racing. 'Mr North moved that in view of the surreptitious attempt by racing clubs to secure legislation enlarging the gambling facilities and undoing the restrictions imposed by the considered legislation of 1910, this council urges on the Prime Minister the impropriety of treating a matter so vitally connected with the well-being- of the country by the present Parliament, and instructs its committee to present to the next meeting of the council a survey of the condition of the State licensing of gambling and the probable effects of tho amendments which the racing clubs are urging on the extension of the vice. The motion was carried unanimously.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3414, 20 August 1919, Page 27
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