THE GAMBLING EVIL.
SPEECH BY MR FOWLDS. WELLINGTON. February 12. The Hon. G. Fowlde (Minister of Education) delivered an addro=s to the Congreeational Union on gambling. He declared the evil to be as widespread in the Dominion as in other countries. From 1892 to 1907 the totahsator investments had increased from £506 078 to £1,837,095, while in the same period the racing permits had been reduced from 234 to 139. Anyone, ho said, who gave attention to the subject must admit that gambling was a canker responsible for more degradation, misery, and crime than any other evil we had in our mid-at. We were sometimes (old that all business was gambling, that farming was gambling, but talk of that kind was the veriest twaddle The very worot form of gambling to his mind was that which was taking place in land values.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 33
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142THE GAMBLING EVIL. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 33
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