METHODISTS OPPOSE THE GAMING BILL.
That a widespread extension of the gambling evil is certain to result from the legalisation of telegraphic bets to racecourses, and of the newspaper publication of dividends, as proposed in Sir George Hunter’s Gaming Bill now before Parliament, is the emphatic view of the North Canterbury Methodist Ministers’ Fraternal. At the monthly meeting of that association yesterday, the Rev A. N. Scotter presiding, the provisions of the Gaming Bill were strongly deprecated, one speaker expressing the view that there was a grave menace -4p the home life of the community in the proposed wide extension of the channels through which betting intelligence is disseminated. It was resolved that members of Parliament and Methodist ministers in North Canterbury should be con* municated with, urging strong tion to these proposals of the Bill.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18830, 6 August 1929, Page 6
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