DERBY SWEEP STOPPED
STOCK EXCHANGE GAMBLING
(Received 22nd February, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 21st February,
Eumours have been current for some time that owing to the possibility of police action under pressure from antigamblers, the Stock Exchange Derby Sweep will bo abandoned.- It is now announced that a mutual subscription fund, as it will be officially called, will be limited to £.100,000, of which 10 per cent, will be distributed to charities. Last year the fund reached a million, and charities received EIOO,----000. Limitation means that needy hospitals and other beneficiaries will lose £90,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 10
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93DERBY SWEEP STOPPED Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 10
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