Working Men’s Club.
To the Kditor of the attendant, Sitt,—Mr Higgins’letter, publised in your issue of ibis date, certainly shows a pretty state of ihiugs iu connection wilh the above Club. I will ask you, Sir, is it really a fact that gambling and other abu.es have been allowed in the Club, and winked at by the committee, aud that the late custodian, Mr Player, iu attempting to pal a stop to these practices, brought down the wrath of the gentlemen {curing the committee on his head, and they dismissed him. Would it not have been consistent to have suspended those persons, who were in the habit of gambling, and of acting the part of amateur declcotives in the billiard business. In respect to the custodian, as one Trustee very pithily put it, it was a mean, underhand, and a most un-English way of acting towards any man. If Working Men’s Clubs are to be carried on in this loose style, used ss drinking shops and gambling dens, the sooner the authorities ate made acquainted with the fact the better, as instead of being any benefit to the working men, they will b< come a curse._ I am, &e., A MnrtißEE or the Ciab.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1761, 20 November 1885, Page 2
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204Working Men’s Club. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1761, 20 November 1885, Page 2
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