Te Pipiwharauroa 101
No. 101
1906/08
(Maori Version at NZETC.)
[1] Te Pipiwharauroa, He Kupu Whakamarama, Number 101, Gisborne, August 1906.
A MURDER AT THE RACE COURSE.
We have often pointed out that one of the evils of betting is that people’s hearts are hardened. Some people bet, one of them loses £10 and is sad, the person who won the £10 from him is happy and feels no compassion for the one who had the £10 – his heart is hardened. The one who took from him the £10 gave him nothing for his money – no property, no horse, nor warmth [werawera]; however he, by luck or theft has profited. When Christ was hanging on the cross, gnawed by pain, the soldiers gambled for his clothes – they had hearts of stone, they had no compassion.
