UNEMPLOYED LOTTERY PROPOSAL
MINISTER’S CONDEMNATION. WELLINGTON, March 13. Speaking at St. John’s Church tonight. the Rev. J. B. Blanchard, referring to the possibility of an Art Union being held in order to assist the unemployed, said that such an art union would be a State lottery, and would involve the Government in exploiting the public for the benefit of the State itself . Air Blanchard vigorously condemned the proposal, and concluded by saying: In view of all the facts, it is not too much to ,sav that though a considerable sum might be raised by such, a lottery, the essential fact would remain that its inauguration would be the selling of the nation’s soul for a magnified “thirty pieces of silver.” I believe the heart of this Dominion is really sound, and that the people expect
the Government to resist the temptation of a State lottery, and to refuse to be such a salesman, at the same time taking the opportunity, to make an end of the whole art union business, of which, all decent people have become heartily sick.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 6
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179UNEMPLOYED LOTTERY PROPOSAL Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1932, Page 6
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