TO HELP THE HOSPITALS
' *"■'■ :- "' ■■'• 1 Arguments in faTour- of sweeps to aid . J the hospitals and unemployed throughout ■ ■% New Zealand are advanced by a ,corre» -H spondent, G. E. Oliver, who gives tha ij figures made available for hospital relief ia .^ Ireland by means of sweepstakes begun in -; Ireland in November, 1930, since whea ■ £2,851,104 has gone to hospitals and i £7,658,142 in prizes—a total of over ten and a-half millions. "If a country like ; Ireland can do this, what is wrong with New Zealand?" he asks. Since gambling ; cannot be stopped by legislation,' tha 1 correspondent maintains that those who> -] object to sweeps need not buy tickets, bufc i that it is only fair to give the sporting* 'j spirited New Zealanders a chance to helpi >i the hospitals, unemplbyed, and incidentally; < themselves—if their luck is in. },
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1932, Page 8
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138TO HELP THE HOSPITALS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1932, Page 8
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