In an article in The Press this morning, the head of the Hospitality Association Canterbury was talking about the pokies: He said revenue from gaming machines was down by millions of dollars. "In the long term, the community is missing out."
Yep. The community is missing out because fewer people (or at least, less money) is being poured into the black pit of manipulated odds called the pokie machine. Damn the ungenerous souls who are putting food on the table and clothing their children at the expense of gambling-funded charities!
If you want to raise money for charity, you can't beat teenage school-girls in wet, cold t-shirts.
I just hope the school has read this article in the Herald:The shock of hitting cold water caused a young man who jumped into a river to die of a heart attack, the Nelson Coroner has ruled.