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LOTTERIES FOR HOSPITALS.

PROPOSAL REJECTED BY N.Z. FARMERS’ UNION EXECUTIVE.

MOYER NOT DISCOURAGED

As the result of a proposal by Mr

J. T. Kout, of Reiltorangi, the Manawatu executive of the Farmers’ Union sent to the last meeting of the Dominion executive a remit that, owing to the heavy increase in the hospital and charitable aid levies, the Government bo urged to run lotteries on the same principle as Tattersall’s, and devote the net proceeds to the sole purpose of reduction of such levies. The remit was moved by Mr O. P. Lynch, president of the Manawatu branch, who pointed out that levies for hospital and charitable aid purposes had increased to such an extent that they, in conjunction with- other local rates, were almost strangling farmer ratepayers. The resolution was a unique way of trying to solve this difficulty. They all knew that hundreds of thousands of pounds went annually to Tattersail’s, and he thought the money should be kept in New Zealand. The chairman reported to the Manawatu executive, on Wednesday, that the remit had lapsed, for want of 1 a seconder. Mr Kent: Can you give me airy reason why it was not seconded ? The Chairman: No, but probably for want of better knowledge. Mr Kent: I think that, coming from a dairy farmer, they would not consider it. The Chairman: Not at all.

Air Kent: 1 was asked by the secre

tary to give him all information, and 1 did. He added that he wrote to Tattersall’s, in Hobart, and to the Golden Casket management, in Brisbane, and got full particulars. Mr Kent proceeded to read figures showing the cost per ratepayer in each of the chief cities of New Zealand for hospital upkeep and charitable aid. He also quoted from a statement showing the financial working of the Golden Casket Art Union, the proceeds being applied to the cost of hospitals, child welfare, and charitable aid. Colonel Pow, Dominion secretary of the Farmers' Union, had asked him if he could find out how much money left New Zealand for investment in Tattersall’s; but it was impossible to obtain the information, because money could net be remitted direct to the management of the sweep. The Chairman: You did not find out, what the Government of New Zealand gets from totalisator profits, but the amount is enormous. The surreptitious gambling is going on, and I think op hospitals and charitable aid might have the benefit. Air H. Denton: Were the members of the Dominion executive conversant with this before it came up?

The Chairman: I don’t think so. Mr Denton: W’hen Mr Kent brought it up we had. a smile, because we did not understand it too well. I think the same happened in the Dominion executive.

Mr Kent: I gave all information to Colonel Pow. The Chairman: He had no chance to bring it in, because the motion was not seconded. If I had known it was going to fall as flat as that, I would have got the papers from Colonel Pow. Mr Kent: 'Somebody might have seconded it pro forma out of courtesy to this executive.

Mr Denton: It is entirely a new idea, and I think it took the wind out of them. •

Mr Kent: I spoke to about 200 ratepayers in Wellington and the country, and only one opposed it, saying he did not believe in gambling. ’Mr C. P. Jensen suggested that the matter had not been lost. He advised Mr Kent to go on with it, and bring it before the next provincial conference as a remit.

The Chairman: If I had had some of that information, I could have gone further. The President congratulated me on the way I.brought the thing forward, saying that I had made a pretty good job of it and that it was a wonder that nobody had seconded it, Tho suggestion was made by* the chairman to Mr Kent that he put the remit through the Waikanae branch for the next provincial conference. Mr Kent said a Wellington paper gave a leading article on it, and 2YA broadcasted it.

Mr Denton: It said there were possibilities in it.

Mr Kent agreed to bring the proposal before the Waikanae branch of the Farmers’ Union.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SNEWS19281112.2.9

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Shannon News, 12 November 1928, Page 2

Word count
Tapeke kupu
709

LOTTERIES FOR HOSPITALS. Shannon News, 12 November 1928, Page 2

LOTTERIES FOR HOSPITALS. Shannon News, 12 November 1928, Page 2

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