THE GAMBLING SPIRIT
Y/EKY few people really defend the gambling facilities which are available to the New Zealand public. The totalisator, the art union and the bookmaker are ail one in that they cater for the instinct to gamble. But while the totalisator and the art union enjoy a legal status the bookmaker is subjected I‘> raids from the police from time to time. There is no ethical justification in .suppressing the bookmaker while the other legalised forms of gambling are provided. The attitude oi the Government appears to be that this evil will go on. and therefore it is just as well to make some money out of it. That gambling is anti-social cannot be gainsaid, and that is why the pakapoo den is i aided every now and again. The Chinese are Io be excused for their love of gambling in consequence of the monotony of their lives; but even the Nanking Government realises that it is an undesirable form of entertainment, and on August 31 last the whole of the gambling houses in the Province of Canton were suppressed. In this matter it can be said with certainty that the people of New Zealand will not follow the Heathen in his blindness.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 277, 23 November 1936, Page 6
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205THE GAMBLING SPIRIT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 277, 23 November 1936, Page 6
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