TIN HARE RACING.
BISHOPS PROTEST. AGAINST BETTING. Pi es i Association -Electric Tclegrapli-Conrright. (Received Wednesday. 9.25 a.in.) SYDNEY,'TIiis Day. The Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney ami the Bishops of Armidale. Graften, Riverina and Bathurst, in a joint letter to Tlr Bavin (lTemier), call attention to the moral and material welfare of the citizens of the State through excessive inducements to, and participation in. Retting mil gambling, and mid that they are convinced tlia 1: a license for betting on mechanical hare racing is calculated to greatly extend the range and increase the appetite for betting, especially among women and children. The State, therefore. is threatened with a most serious social peril. The immediate and ultimate consequences are so great that they pray the Government to prohibit betting in connection with these electrical devices.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 December 1927, Page 5
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