GAMBLING.
Everybody who studies the- subject will admit the shocking results which the gambling spirit brings -vvith.it. But that will not prevent the instinct—for it seems to be an instinct—from seeking its field of exercise. The very earliest civilisation shows the instinct to have existed, sw] — ~ doubt whether the latest will have a better tale to j". I hat, or course, does not mean that the State should not seek to check the abuses springing- from it or to the dangers it introduces. "\.'l may be open to - c>^* e regulation at all even 4 - - certain objections, but which ...vd it is a practical principle, -** for the present, cannot be said or prohibition. “Hawke’s Bay Herald.” .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2491, 3 May 1909, Page 2
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116GAMBLING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2491, 3 May 1909, Page 2
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