BETTING WITH BOOKMAKERS
“A MUG’S GAME.” Auckland, March 7. “A woman in New Zealand had been heard to tell her daughter that if she wanted to get some new clothes she had better go to the racesand make some money to pay for them,” asserted the Bishop of London in an address yesterday. That was the worst thing he had ever heard, and if it was typical of the spirit of a young nation, then God help the country. “It is a mug’s game,” Dr. Ingram said. “The bookmakers in London make millions a year and ride about in mo-tor-cars. How do they do it"? Out of the money of mugs. New Zealand) hardly realised how hard a grip gambling and betting could get on a nation, and it lay in the power 'of the men and women of this young nation to stop it if they acted together.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3610, 8 March 1927, Page 3
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149BETTING WITH BOOKMAKERS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3610, 8 March 1927, Page 3
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