CHURCHES OPPOSE GAMING AMENDMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 86, 2 July 1927, Page 12

CHURCHES OPPOSE GAMING AMENDMENT

-WILL INCREASE EVIL” RESOLUTIONS PASSED Mr’c&s AfrsvGiVjPion. a»D3S!Eaai3:., muitey. Hite ffissanuSiswe «r Jte idnuncai .«tf (jfei-iatiwjn -OttngpesatinnG ihsw unaiiitUMnmly ipuasufl the ffitOltrolteg rsiatfliitien:— “That this .execatti-v»e voices a strong protest against the Gamine. Amendment Bill, NVhich has been ’lntroduced in Parliament, the aim* of which are to facilitate and thus greatly encourage and increase gambling in the ODominion by ah lowing totaliaator investments to be telegra-tihed tv chib seoretajries, removing restrieftiEms on the p.uVjslication -of dividends In connection WJrfib such forms -of gambling through the totalisator. and removing the prohibition which at present exists against fixe use off the double’ totaliaator. The effect of these proposals, iff carried into ilam’„ will he to intensify tfche -gamhliing ex'll, Ax'hieh already has secured ■■a tragic and damaging grip upon the life of the .community. ” OPPOSITION m TIWIAPU Ait a meeting off the Timaru Minis' tens' Association, representative of the Anglican. .Presbyterian.. Methodist, and Baptist Churches, and the TJRff.CA., it: was u-nahimouSly resolved that a strong protest be issued against the Gaming Amendment .Bill, on the j ground that fre-xn all available -evidence, including that off racing men. the removal off restrictions suggested would materially increase gambling-