Spielers.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 406, 21 January 1890, Page 2

Spielers.

[TO THE EDITOR.] Sib,— With your remarke on the subject ot spielers I entirely agree, but I think that a much s’ronger stand should also be taken nr, The business neople being, as you prove, the principal sufferers, they might very easily take up a determined attitude, and positively refuse to acknowledge a holiday on any race day if the clubs continue to tolerate tha horde of spielers which no one who went to the last races could avoid notioing. Ido not suppose the olub got more than £lO from the whole contingent, while I am sura they prevented at least £2O going throqgb tk)g totaliaator.—l am, eto., Bnstxase, 2

[TO THE EDITOB.] Sib, —I think you have taken up * good line in using the breeches pocket argument as a reason why the spieler element should no longer be taught to regard Gisborne ae a happy hunting groqnd during the rating season, I notice that the number ws had at the last race meeting has been increased by the addition ot a tew more, who have been attracted probably by hearing accounts ot the tremendous business to ba done in this plea* sent little place. At the WasNoga-anika course I counted five policeman shepherding the shady characters. It the' gentleman em* ployed in the Government service were only od| on a hol|day it may have been right enough— I suppose they were entitled to it as much 'as anyone else. But it the public have tq sup-, port a staff tor such purposes it is lime there was an alteration la the existing state ot 1 things. People certainly ought not to have their tea and sugar taxed tor such purposes. In Napier I understood that a spieler will not even be allowed on a racecourse, no mliter whether he is known to have gaming utensils or not. It they otter to go in they are immediately spotted and it they do not make tracks are arrested. It is a pity the police here have nqt pqwer tq prevent them coming into ths district as the Australians' recently prevented another plague, the Chinese whom they ordered back to the place whence they asms. At any rate every advantage should be taken of the measures that are possible for ridding the place Ot a frequently recurring peal.— l anj.etc., Gusoaxg,