THE GAMBLING EVIL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13488, 31 July 1907, Page 5

THE GAMBLING EVIL.

(Per Pr«M .AModatioii.) '- WELLINGTON, July 30. In replying to the anti-gambling deputation,' the Premier said he did not mind candidly saying the proposal in last year's Bill, to give one, per cent, of the total isator investments to local charities, wasjmt in advisedly, with a view to getting the legislation on the Statute Book. A Voice : It's a bad proposal. Sir Joseph: A gentleman behind me says it is bad. I think it is. (Hear, hear.) We can leave it out of the Bill this time. As to gambling in land, which one. of the deputation had mentioned, the place to deal with that was in the Land Bill. Reverting to the main question, he laid some improvements had been made in the Bill, and he hoped the deputation would recognise it was a sincere attempt to deal with the whole question of gambling. The question whether anything should be done to prevent newspapers publishing the dividends on races could be again put before his colleagues. He believed newspaper proprietors would do everything they could improve the condition of affairs.