DUTY OF CITIZENS
STANDING BY THE LAWS OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFORM “•Our citizenship gives us the right to make our own laws—even ff you do not like the laws, stand by them or wait until the day comes when you can alter them,” said Mr G. W- Lopdell, inspector of police In Hamilton, during an address at the Hamilton Rotary Club’s “Father and Son” dlnuer held last evening. Many people, he stated, did not agree with the present gaming laws, hut this attitude should not encourage violation of the laws but an attempt at reform. “Do not associate with the outlawed bookmaker or Indulge In raffles and sweepstakes, which Ore illegal,” he added. Again, continued Mr Lopdell, there w*ere others, good citizens many of them, who did not respect the licensing laws as they stood. What these persons considered wrong should not be overcome by circijmventing present regulations but by standing by them and aiming for reconstruction.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20774, 6 April 1939, Page 6
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