Racing and Tainted Money.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 11, 19 May 1911, Page 14

Racing and Tainted Money.

THE COLLECTION PLATE. '•I jun often asked whether racing couldn't exist and flourish -without betting and my reply _ always is—it- might exist, but it certainly could not floiirish without speculation. The totalisator or the bookmaker were indispensable. It was a case of not bet, no public, and no public, no racing/ . So spake the Honourable Yon Doussa, sec. oi : the noted Onkaparinga Racing Club, South Australia, and he asked, in reply to a statement by a leading Adelaide divine, that totalisator money was "tainted" : ' "What would the churches come to if their collection plates and subscription lists were taken away on the snmo basis of reasoning? Tainted money, forsooth! By what right or authority did any clergyman designate it by that name? How did Rev. Mr. Nield manage to separate the tainted from the sanctified money" which went into his collection plate ? By the same reasoning that gentleman shxrald return the collection which he received from --ill brewers, publicans. vignerous, distillers, wine merchants, farmers who grew barley and hops, and merchants who sold sugar. If he did that for a month he would find that the old age pension would be his only hope in the future."