THE GAMBLING EVIL.
HON. GEO. FOWLDS SPEAKS OUT
, Press Association. AVEELINGTON, Feb. 12. The Hon. Geo. Fowlds delivered an address at the Congregational Union ■ on gambling, declaring that the evi'JL was as widespread in the Dominio.n as in other countries. From 1892 to 1907 the totalisator investments liad increased from £506,018 to £1,837,1)95, while in the same period the racing permits had been reduced from. 234 to 139. Anyone, he said, who 'gave attention to the subject must admit that gambling was a canker responsible for more degradation, misery, and crime than any other evil theybad in their midst. They were sometimes told that ;all .business was gambling—that farming was gambling—but talk like that was the veriest twaddle. The very worst form of gambling, to his mind, was that which was taking nlace in land values.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 13 February 1908, Page 2
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136THE GAMBLING EVIL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 13 February 1908, Page 2
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