DOG RACING
“Merely as " s'pwt, if ,l l ‘‘\" I>c so c-.illotl, r. a body would "dsli l« interfere with it, but when the settlin' up of i. track nitons the whole character ~.f n neighbourhood and drains the 1 sockets of the tradespeople for the hem-fit of a class of much less soeiallx I'sralftahle persons and when this happens not in a few eases hut in scores jn ,a won in hundreds it is surely time that the public as "'ell »* t,K ' speclilptors should liavc something to sa.\ in the matter. If we emm; by way el 10-al option to a general series of banand nrollihit ion; on tracks we should ,1a si with a full recognition that gambling does not begin am! end m Mean flreet and that a shilling pot on a dorr is the moral equivalent of a nobleman's hundred rounds on a horse or of any of those Stock Exchange ‘flutters’ in margins which appear to he an increasing and nntaxed recreation of highly respectable persons.”--“.Manchester Ciuanliun."
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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171DOG RACING Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1928, Page 4
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