CHURCH AND GAMBLING.
BISHOP OF NELSON DISAPPROVES OF RAFFLES. The Bishop of Nelson, is a strong opponent of gambling in any shape or form, as a means of raising funds for church' purposes (says an exchange). ~ At the Picton meeting held recently, he told his hearers that only lately he had to respectfully turn down an offer of a gift from a generous donor because of the conditions that it should be raffled for the fund being raised for the cathedral at Nelson. "I would rather not see one brick of the cathedral laid," said His Lordship "than be a party to the raising of funds bv such purposes." A reporter was credibly informed that the gift mentioned was a new motor-car, valued-«it £9OO, and that flhe would-be donor was a well-known Marlborough land-owner.
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Shannon News, 1 April 1924, Page 2
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134CHURCH AND GAMBLING. Shannon News, 1 April 1924, Page 2
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