CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81834, 29 August 1906, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE GAMBLING QUESTION. (To tho Editor. | Sir, —1 have read with keen interest "Moturoa's" remarks on g ambling. 1 lliink be runs into the same mistake that many others do, viz., by taking- up a lot of cases and asking the question, What is gambling ? With the voter at the present juncture this is not the question at all. It is the fact that every voter is made a gambler through the totalisator which is legalised and out of wli'ch the Government draws a big profit. The Government, I, and every voter is responsible for the totalisator. Horse-racing may be good, bad or indifferent in itself ; but gambling is bad, small or great, and at once tends to demoralise whoever shares in it. And the totalisator is the grandest and vet most deplorable nurseryhead of gambling ever invented, l athers and mothers beware. It is evident they arc aware, as 1 can show by a petition 1 had the honor of taking round a small part of New Plymouth, and taking bouse by house, in a few hours the petition was signed by fifty-eight, all of whom were twenty-one years of age and upward. And this for the total abolition of tlie totalisator. I am certain there were 6 persons signed to one who objected and very few indeed were in strong opposition. Evidently these parents and voters are determined to clean their hands of this dire evil. And J would most respectfully urge upon "Moturoa" and a ] l good citizens to join in this crusade and to see that the Government has a clean and consistent band to deal with other and more glaring gambling evils.—l am, etc., L. LILLEY. " ACCLIMATISATION MATTERS. TO THE ISDITOIt. Tn your issue this morning I police an item of interest to sportsmen, rile Stratford Acclimatisation Society !ia\e been very successful in hatching some 20,000 trout. This is not the (irst and only encreetic action that has been reported in your paper during the last few months on behalf of outside societies. [Jnfortunately we hear very little of tho doings of the New Plymouth Society. Is it not possible, Mr Editor, to infuse new life into it, and for us to try at least to keep pace' ■villi nciihb jring societies even if we may not possibly outshine them ? Is there any chance of a general meeting being called to further the objects of the Society ?—I am, etc., Spout, New Plymouth, Aug. 28th, 1000.