STATE LOTTERIES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1932, Page 3

STATE LOTTERIES

|t'. SYDNEY’S*BIG “INDUSTRY.”

I b-; vj Vt \ SUDNEY, August 9. $ Th© Stated fotteries still go on their £ prosperous ways; and* the fortunate | specula torsi receive their “dividends” | iregHla<dy. -A,t Jjeaft-, one is- drawn evil ery week—sometimes two—with a V nmxjmujn-piize'fif £5000; and iriterf- jmttientlyi (ft larger lot- | # a fast prize of £9OOO. Since the systfiu wad staited, over £2,000,000 ’lias * boon 'subscribed. by the. general public 5* its paymentfbr tickets, and nearly £l,i>; aOOjOOO'hws been returned in the form. % ©i'fpriae&i-. ■ ; rf L’.";' •.. . So accustomed are people her© to l th* potteries that it will take itome time jpid tniuhie to'bfeak them bf the ■) , ; the'' e](pe'ri ( ment is certain | tfcf; -be/unpopulair whep Dour legislators .vdntuhairvto--inake?'it;AS': a' matter of £fiet it is well- known that Mr Stevens |- : lf.l>d / . 'a(everhl members of Ms -- Cabinet | ttbjebt .to lotteries on principle. | 'But . the of Public'Health doefc noty. hnd Mj Weaver is a capable !' administrator, with a Well-developed | getting his own way. - ‘ f He points but that ‘the financial re:j quiremerita • -of the' State’s hospitals | during the - current financial year will amount to= dose- on and i | without' thfe -aid Jecured from the lotP-. terie*—wfaicfc .jjtttjq’ ;• already 1 credited ; ‘ many v himcjtreds;.'fif thousands to the l hagpitaF;. 'direct taxak would be •necewaiy’.' This would :^: sum qf £750,000 already obtained from voluntary con- j Weaver ! frankly admits) that without the lot- ! teries, the 'canpot; “carry on,” much ; le&il /extend the ; scope of hospital | treathien%f;bn'.H?oi'p' : gcnero os lines. \^.T^;©iSh^^^jhf->iikhi^.'-js v that, in all probability, l little' as Mr Stevens likes the', prospect,’? the' lotteries will be re- -' , the Direct- ... ’or pfvli^bferies, i:f’fond of pointing out gffihLle iii ’ if tlj(by a. chdiice, find" if' New So r’fch ■^Tale^' drops: thifi lotteries, •' the money tMtv#pifld have gone to our hospitaljs ihih'siiinply' flow-bnt of the State into and ptheT “foreign . . investments I’': 1 ’': ’-ias 'before./JJiit'j.' Mr J Whiddop seems confident enough about "t»B/|jrutufej for he is already planning developihynts, on a large scale—including'.£2o,ooo privet—to compete with “Jhit’s-’: sweep- and .other similar. veriiiifeif, which absorb such an encrmouf . dnapypt- of; public .money; about- MeJhbirheCuptirne.' ■■■■”'.' <