EXHIBITION LOTTERY :

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 January 1914, Page 6

EXHIBITION LOTTERY :

CONDEMNED BY OONGRB&ATIOV*! ■ UNION.■-•--.* ""*"■¥'■•■•■ • RESOLUTIONS OF PBOIBST; • At a meeting of the ejecijtfte? cofemittee of tire Congregational Umoft of New • Zealand, heid in the Berieford ' Street Church, Airland, -the fjiUosrJßZ ' resolution was capied: "Thie,cjbinisti4t hereby enters ite against the action -of the iEnefei foi " ißteTnal Affaire in granting a permit to ' a private individual .for eo-caHed Exhibition lately, .'l3i» cot. ' ' mittee would joint out to that the Exhibition eommSfcteedaßeliuii any connection- jyath ; tie-wii:l(jtttry. This committee records its'eoavictiftn ' that the prevalent- gambling ej&it » ■■'■': subversive; «f the ibejst in^CTe^B -oj, Sba'te, and expresses its indignatron tiii : ■■•'■ the moral welfare of the community fc»i •been- 6ub,jog»J<y' .to especially in view of the apparent fast thai no Nmat to *th£ number of tick*! H" to be cold 6as been'made." ' I 'A further reeohition paseed ,w*b: executive committee of the Ooggw|f tional Union ■of New Zealand «xprw«*( jte pleasure that tee is in no interested! in the *ocaSied Exhibition tottery'trf 'gjflji - nnggrie. I£ firrfcsef expresses the hope ti'ii in tij .- interests of the .comtnunity, and'in>iCT ' of tbe ■iwdwubted evile of r the garobjjpg 6>pirit, : tlfie TSihibvtiion committee 5 wjll hot avail itself iof'any facilities graurted tjy- . . „.. Legfetoture ifor condiictrag lotteriei or : art unione." : ■'*••' ', : ■• The Teeoluti-ons have been- ingned hj tbe Rev. , -'as* chaJnn»i, : the:. Rer. J. H. Mackenzie ste'eecrebiry, tni - Sir] T. W. White as '-treasurer.' V "'