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STATE LOTTERIES INQUIRIES MADE IN AUSTRALIA. (Australian Press Association). SYDNEY, June 19. The major prizes of the New South Wales State Lottery to-day were drawn by Mr Neil McArthur, of Wellington, Aew Zealand, who is repoited to be inquiring into the lottery systems in Austra.ia, on behalf of the New Zealand Government. ONLY PRIVATE INVESTIGATION. WELLINGTON, June 19.
The statement in the Sydney cable that Mr McArthur is inquiring into the lottery systems of Australia on behalf of the New Zealand Government was given ah emphatic denial in official circles to-night. They gaid that any inquiry Mr McArthur was making was being made purely in a private capacity. His visit to Australia had no official standing so far as the New Zealand Government was concerned.
LOTTERY BILL NEXT SESSION? SYDNEY, June 19.
Regarding the lottery matter,' according to Mr Whiddon, the director cf the N.S.W. State Lottery, the New Zealand I’arlinment, next session, will he mked to approve of legislation for the conduct of Government lotteries' in the Dominion, It is estimated that upwards of nine tnousand applications for New South Wales lottery tickets now reach Sydney from New Zealand every week.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1933, Page 5
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