STATE LOTTERIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 300, 19 December 1922, Page 10

STATE LOTTERIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir. —Xow that there seems a likelihood of our having a Parliament of live men I trust seeing that money is needed that something will lie done in the way of a State lottery as in Australia. Everyone knows that thousands of pounds go out of tiiis country annually to Australia, and that we might just as well get the benefit of it. Members of Parliament are perhaps afraid of women voters turning against them if they propose this. Let them remember that thousands of women must have voted anti-prohibition, and women will be still less opposed to this other "vice." Many women are more anti-wowser than the men. they have to keep quieter about it: that is all. A sweep of this nature would add interest to the dull lives of many women in our smaller settlements and backblocks, would also add to the revenue of the country, and do absolutely no harm whatever. It is this spirit of wowserism that is responsible for so much of the dullness in many New Zealand lives, and dullness "Js the cause of real sin- Perhaps if the parents had a little amusement in their lives they would look after the teeth, etc., of their children a little better and not force teachers of ninety children to lower themselves acting nursemaid. Too little excitement of a pleasant kind is just as bad for us as too much.—l am, etc., FEMIXA.