Patronage of Bookmakers

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5603, 9 April 1943, Page 6

Patronage of Bookmakers

“It is my opinion that no less than 25 per cent of the male community patronize the bookmaker, a man liable on conviction to two years’ imprisonment, and I believe this is largely responsible for the present increase in adolescent crime. The youth sees his elder doing something against the law and boasting of it. Think of the effect of that on the mind of an adolescent,” said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in an address to the Auckland Justices of the Peace Association. “I believe,” he added, “that the promiscuous way the gaming laws of this country are flouted is responsible for the slipping of adolescents—their first little slip, perhaps, in many cases—into a life of crime.”

Mails for Army in Pacific “Some are lucky and some are not,” said Mr R. V. White in a report to the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce council regarding complaints that Nqrth Island mails were dispatched more promptly to soldiers in the Pacific than South Island mails. Mr White said the complaints had been investigated, and it was found that there was no air mail to the station concerned, the Post Office using the best possible means of dispatch. There was no discrimination against the South Island, although sometimes delays were caused by the three day a week mail service to the North Island, from which all the mails referred to were dispatched. Sometimes it was not possible for all the mail waiting to be cleared by the means of transport used, so that one letter might be received in a few days and another not for some weeks. Dates of dispatch for the station were irregular.