CHEQUE TOR £250 REJECTED
ACTION OF BAPTIST CHURCH
A cheque for £250, a g|ft from the New Zealand Government to the Baptist Union of New Zealand, has been returned to the Government. The cheque was the first instalment of a grant of £5OO made from art union profit. The seventy-first annual Baptist Assembly, which is meeting in Christchurch, approved the action of the union. “The Baptist Church regards money derived from lotteries and gambling of any kind as ‘dirty money’,” said the ecMtor of the “New Zealand Baptist” (the Rev. N. R. Wood).
It has been reported that the Minis* ter of Internal Affairs (Mr W. A. Bodkin) had asked the Government to consider payment of a similar sum from the Consolidated Fund, but that this was refused by the Government.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27192, 9 November 1953, Page 10
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