PATRIOTIC FUNDS.
LOTTERIES DEPLORED. Per Press Association. WANGANUI, June' 8. • Concern .at the spread of gambling in New Zealand, and especially at the Order-in-Council allowing, the holding of art unions to assist the Patriotic Funds, is expressed in a statement drawn tip by a commission of Wanganui ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church. The statement says: “The appeal for funds for the sick and Wounded should stand entirely on its own merits, and we are confident that'the public will support the appeal to give without the enticement of winning a prize. The generosity of a large section of the community has already proved this. The Presbytery deplores the supposed necessity to, stimulate our people’s generosity in a patriotic cause bv appealing to the base motive of selfishness, and calls upon memliers and adherents of the Presbyterian Church to give to the Patriotic Funds bv straight-out gifts, and not through art unions, lotteries, or any other gambling devices.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 7
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158PATRIOTIC FUNDS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 162, 8 June 1940, Page 7
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