Gambling machines
Sir,—The item “War declared on worst New Zealand gambling problem” is so comical that it must be hard for professional satirists such as A, K. Grant and “Whim Wham” to survive. While the police talk of a profit of tens of millions from illegal gambling machines, they are “quietly looking at the while the
one-armed bandits are there for all to see and children to feed their coins into. The police “do not intend to ignore” their enforcement role, but that is exactly what they are doing. The trouble stems from the National Government’s changes to the Gaming Act, allowing commercial profit from lotteries. There was no public demand for this, merely lobbying by National’s friends who are the real “heavies” now intimidating lottery ticket agents; threatening loss of their lucrative commissions if they handle certain non-profit raffles. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. February 2, 1986.
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Press, 4 February 1986, Page 20
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