WITHOUT GAMBLING.
i Tihe Wairarapa was givemTTts nnst ex-pej-i'emioe yesterday of a race-meeting without a totaJflisator, or other form of gambling. To describe it as depressing, -would not exaggerate the position. It wais like- a.n> egg without isalt, the play of Hamlet without the ghtost. A section of tine comnvuinity •has >crultivated the habit of gambling. It goes to the racecourse with the oibject of investing its money on its "jßamicy." And if it cannot bet —it isitays away. lit is morally oerit'ain ithat, whatever good the abolition otf the bookmiaker ,may do, it will effectually extinguish the most legitimate form of racing we 'have—the cross-country isteepleohase meeting. This is very onfuidh .to be regretted. If there is any justifioation at all for the totalisiator, that imadhiine 'should 'be rmade available art race inieetin@9 which have for their chief object tlie improvement in the flbreed ! and srbaioinia; of hansec.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10409, 1 September 1911, Page 4
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149WITHOUT GAMBLING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10409, 1 September 1911, Page 4
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