Gambling
Says v Scrutator" in the Wellington Times :— There are, at least, three hotels at which, so I am credibly informed, gambling goes on regularly from say 11 o'clock on Saturday nights until late ou Sunday mornings. The police are quick enough at running 1 in some poor inoffensive tipsy fellow who may be hurting no one but himself, but of this gambling curse they feign to be totally ignorant. If the merchants and large shopkeepers in Wellington were interviewed they could tell of dozens, of cases ot embezzlement, the first cause of which could be traced to these wretched 'hazard hells.' In ninetynine cases out of a' hundred the offender is dismissed, his parents or relatives make good ihe loss, and so nothing is heard ot the offence. Meanwhile the ' bones' rattle merrily in the box, die odds are given, and victims ruined in body and soul There is a great outcry nowadays against the evils, of drink, but the gambling curse— a far more deadly, more damnable a thing— is conveniently ignored.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 8 December 1892, Page 4
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174Gambling Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 8 December 1892, Page 4
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