ANTI-GAMBLING.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 274, 18 April 1918, Page 18

ANTI-GAMBLING.

Supt. : Miss Henderson. Very little definite work has been done in this department during the year. Nelson reports that efforts

have been made to impress upon members of the Union the duty of upholding the resolution passed at the Auckland Dominion Convention against gambling practices in connection \wth patriotic work, and of giving no support to such practices. At the District Convention, in November, the following resolution was passed, and copies sent to the Premier and other Ministers, the Mayor of Nelson, and the secretaries of patriotic societies: — “This Convention, believing that a high moral sense is the most valuable asset of any community, and that the spirit of gambling, in whatever form, tends to deteriorate and eventually to destroy that moral sense, protests emphatically against the introduction of such methods of raising money for patriotic purposes, as spinning jennies, art unions, or raffles of any description, which are having an incalculably evil effect on the young people of the communitv It would therefore respectfully, but earnestly, request the Government to make such methods illegal, and to undertake the raising of such necessary funds by taxation, in co-operation with diiect voluntary effort.” Wellington Provincial Convention oassed resolutions protesting against die gambling introduced into patriotic work, etc., and urging Government to refust* rating and totalisator permits during the war Port Chalmers Union reports resolution expressing strong disapproval of racing in war time, and of the great waste of money by gambling when so much is required for patriotic purposes.