THE GAMING LAWS.
“STUPID AND USELESS” PROVISIONS. The Christchurch Press, in common with many other newspapers, scathingly deals with the non-publication of dividend clauses of the Gaming Art. and remarks:
“It is difficult to see how the Magistrate) could do other than convict the Wellington newspaper which was prosecuted for breaking that section of the Gaming Act which prohibits the publication 'of information (concerning dividends on horse races. It is still more difficult to see, however, that the newspaper's offence can have done any injury to any person or infringed any sound principle or run counter to any public interest. This is to say that the statutory command which.was disobeyed has nri foundation in reason or in common sense, hut is tyrannical, arbitrary, stupid and useless. What is more, everybody knows this, xvitli the exception. perhaps, of a handful of innenent creatures who have been persuaded that the publication of'dividends in the newspapers will increase ‘the gamn’.ing evil.’ "
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 3
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158THE GAMING LAWS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16918, 24 December 1925, Page 3
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