NEWSPAPERS AND GAMBLING.
[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have frequently noticed contributors to the Cadbury- Rowntree controversy, recently carried on in your columns, regretting the fact that the publication in newspapers of bookmakers' advertisements, betting lists, tips, and other "incitements to gambling" could not be absolutely prohibited, by law ; and I have wondered whether it is known to yourself and your contributors that this has been for years the case in this dominion certainly and (if I am not mistaken) in the Australian Commonwealth. In New Zealand the prohibition is absolute and universal, and consequently no newspaper is a penny the worse, and, moreover, there is no agitation or desire on the part of the public for the removal of the bar.—I am,
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