POLITICAL JOTTINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1930, Page 2

POLITICAL JOTTINGS

Mr J. O’Brien (Lab., Westland) criticised the Sports Protection League and its activities in the interests of sport. “I have known some pretty hard-doers among -bookmakers in my time,” he said, “but every one of them has had more true sportsmanship in his little finger than any member of the Sports Protection League.”

“So long as we belong to British stock gambling will continue like Tennyson s brook.”—Mr T. Makitanara (U., Southern Maori).

“Racing is called the sport of kings; it ought to be called . the sport of kinks.”—Mr F. Langstone (Lab., Waimarino).

“We might as well go on with a mop and try to soak up the Pacific Ocean a* endeavour to suppress the operations of the bookmaker,Mr R*. A. Wright (Ref,, Wellington Suburbs.)

“A nation without recreation would cjeyelop info a vast lunatic asylum.”— Mr W -E. Perry (Lab., Auckland Central,)

“The Taupo pumice country is one or Nature’s rubbish heaps.”—Mr E. J. Howard (Lab., Christchurch South.)

“The only bet I have had in my life was on the Derby at Home.”—Mr W. D. Lysnar (Ind. Ref., Gisborne,)

“In the Gaming Bill we have the same old horse; the only difference on this occasion is that it is minus one of its legs and has a different jockey up.” —Mr W. E. Parry (Lab., Auckland Central.)

“Why not let the general public know openly what the racing dividends ares they will find out even if they have to go tiptoeing after people who do not officially exist?”—Mr W. J. Broadfoot (U., Waitomo.)

“The Rotorua-Taupo railway proposition has become the football of party politics,” Mr W. E. Barnard (Lab., Napier.)