CHILD GAMBLERS
GROWING ENGLISH EVIL Gambling among school-children, particularly in certain towns in the north, is increasing at an alarming rate. This revelation was made at Liverpool at the annual conference of the National Association of Head Teacher*-. Mr. T. Freer, of Hull, moved a resolution deploring the increasing facilities for gambling, especially the setting up of gambling machines by trades people on their premises. He said that on one machine by the manipulation of certain levers the player got counters of money value which had to be spent in the tradesman’s shop. Boys and girls in his own school put money on horses regularly as part of the day’s programme. The resolution was carried unanimously, and it was decided to forward it to the Association of Chief Constables. Miss J. V. Gibb, of Liverpool, who presided, appealed for the lengthening of the school age. She said that not only would such a change give the child a better education, but it would enable them to pilot it through the difficult period of adolescence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 7
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174CHILD GAMBLERS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 7
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