CLERICS ON BETTING.
BISHOP PREFERS THE “TOTE." London, July 13Bishop Welldon, in giving evidence before the Betting Commission, said that the totalisator was a more straightforward system. The State should not derive revenue from immoral practices. A shilling bet was not wrong, but he objected to people betting when they were unable to afford it. He supported a tax because he believed it would curtail the operations of the betting ring and diminish unlicensed betting. Canon Green, of Manchester, considered that there were at least 100,000 cases annually where betting caused crime. Betting generally was a “fool’s game.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2607, 17 July 1923, Page 2
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98CLERICS ON BETTING. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2607, 17 July 1923, Page 2
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