A HUGE LOTTERY

TO BENEFIT BUND

EMANATES FROM DANZIG

.Plans have been completed recently at a conference in London for a sweepBtake- which, the organisers-believe will be the greatest the world has yet known. It will lie called the World Blind Subscription Fund, and the headquarters will be at Danzig. . The venture has been known to the authorities of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind, at Auckland for some time, but the director, Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, says it is not regarded with favour, and the institute has no desire to participate in any way. It feels that in any case far too large a proportion of the takings would be swallowed up by the syndicate, which has no connection With the World Council of the Blind. For more than a year the people responsible have been working on the details, but it was not until recently that tho last of the many difficulties were" overcome, states an English paper. Originally it was intended to have a sweepstake on the last Derby, but a beginning will now be made with tho Grand National, which will bo run at Aintree on 18th March nest. Already, however, tickets are being printed for a second sweep on the 1932 Derby, and it is possible if success is met that in coming years there will be a sweepstake on the majority of the big races. Tho World Blind Trust is a company formed to finance the undertaking, and it will be governed by three managers and four representatives of the World Blind Subscription Fund. The fund "is described as "a charitable organisation formed to rceeiva moneys from the sweepstake." It has four' managers, two of whom are English. These managers are controlled by a' committee, whose members are drawn from Great Britain, the United.States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, tho Dominions, and various Continental countries. , It. is, proposed that every blind institution in the world will be represented on the council, but the allocation of funds will bo in the hands of the Chief Committee, who will award the amount as the1 needs of the different countries demand. In addition, the Free State of Danzig, which has granted a 20 years' concession to. tho, organisers, has.appointed a commissioner who will act as a sort of supervisor. The main object of the sweepstake is to benefit tho blind. When the- time comes for a distribution it will bear a certain relation to tho total amount subscribed. What this will be is naturally a matter for guesswork, but as tickets will be sold in every country in Europe, in Britain, in the Dominions, and in North and South America, it is considered possible that the aggregato will bo several million pounds. The tickets for the Grand National sweepstake are now on salo in many countries. They stato that tho fund is under the chairmanship of Mr. G. F. Mowatt, British member of the executive committee of International Blind Congresses, and Mr. C. G. Henderson, president of the All India Blind Association.