THE GAMBLING EVIL.
BISHOP NELIGAN ON THE *" l TOTALISATOR. I
[(Pec Press Association.) Auckland, last night
Tbe Anglioan Bishop of Auckland (Dr, Neligan) in his charge to the Synod,.dealt.., in a most forcible manner with the”' gambling evil and the effects of the totalisator on the national life. Ia tbe course af hie remarks be said : “It has apparently been reserved for the cost democratic i part of the British Empire • of New land to exhibit to the world a democra’,i*.|i> government legalising and receiving re-*:’ venue from the most abominable machine tbat ever was invented for turning out citizens who care more for selfishness than * for socialism. Tbe legal existence to-day of the totalisator in this democrats coun-... try is about as glaring a contradiction of true demooraoy, of genuine .socialism es one could well find. Gambling is an offence against socialism, a contradiction of : democracy, and a sin against the brotherhood.” The Bishop also condemned the facilities provided by the telegraph offioe in connection with race meetings.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1584, 14 October 1905, Page 2
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169THE GAMBLING EVIL. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1584, 14 October 1905, Page 2
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