REVENUE FROM CASINO
REFUSED BY CANTON . GOVERNMENT * 'Special Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 23. I Governments are usually so eagcP Ln iheir search for revenue that it s unusual to hear of one foregoing a very I considerable sum. It was reported, • however, at. the Presbyterian Assembly in Christchurch yesterday that the Canton Government (China) had refused to renew the licence of a casino, thereby losing no less than 'twenty million dollars (£1,000,000) per • annum. The decision was based solely lon the ground that the moral and material damage of the gambling done [at the casino far outweighed even the [enormous revenue derived from it. 'The Canton Government, which controls sixty million Chinese, has al*? declared war on the other Chinese vice of opium smoking. Confirmed addicts are to be given a period ji which to break themselves of the habP before it becomes illegal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 25 November 1936, Page 6
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