"SPIELERS."
AN UNDESIRABLE FRATERNITY. The approach of Grand National week is, or should be, a warning to householders to put a lock on the front gate and to see that -no articles of any value whatever are left in tho < backyard. Grand National week invariably brings in its train a number of tlio undesirable* fraternity of " spielers," who make no distinction between mine and thine, and who pub into practice, with more or less success, the communism which forms such a large portion of the stock-in-trade- of the° red-tie Socialist orator. It would be well, too, for strangers in the city who. are staying at lodging-houses or hotels to act on the advice of a prominent local "sleuth," who advises the keeping of money or valuables in the vest pocket, tho vest to be placed, under the pillow before retiring to rest. The pickpocket will also probably be largely in evidence during next week.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10536, 10 August 1912, Page 7
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154"SPIELERS." Star (Christchurch), Issue 10536, 10 August 1912, Page 7
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