ANTI GAMBLING ACT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81889, 16 November 1906, Page 3

ANTI GAMBLING ACT.

SUCCESS IN NEW SOUTH WALES Speaking at a meeting at Hornsby, K.S.W., Mr C. G. Wade (Attor'-f ncy-General) referred to the AntiGambling Act as not being particularly popular with some young men of the State, but he considered that the .Government had only struck the blow in time. In the heart of Sydney there

had been a perfect nest of ev.l which (was bringing the boys and youth- mtj enslaving temptation, and keeping their minds in a perpetual staw> of exc.tement. The first thought of niany was centred on the question, "what are the odds?'' and their last was of their employers' interests. {There *a» fa« developing a class of young person* with no desire to work or improve himself- and his great wish »a* to become rich without working. Whatever complaints were made against the Act it couid be said that Street betting, which was an absolute curse three weeks ago, has now cea'ed in Sydney. On one day three neks age no le-s than 7000 persons had Jjeen counted go ng down Bank-lam-. • Uiey have only one purpose. ,That thoroughfare was now absolutely empty, and that. 100, without any har-h effort* on ihe part of the police. The Ch nese, who had thwarted the police for years- had packed up the 1 traps and gone to China, Victor a c.r New Zealand. He men-ioned that in ono place before the Act came into operation, the \nmate- hadunoVr•tood the preparation of fnr'ifkations 'as well as the defender of Port Arthur, and bafbed wire, iron bar-. and barricades blocked the entry 0! the p"lice. When an entrance was gained. Johnny had gone, and there was <v dence to show that gambling had Ix'T, B°ing on. During the last lew ■week*, however, then: have been on sale at tfaymatket odd abutmentsof barbed wire, iron bars and 01 >r material. The «i.in c.s- <if the measure ■was proved by re-11'f. and without teing too dras'ic t would free the State of street and shop bc-'ting.