LEGAL LOTTERIES

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 69, 19 September 1932, Page 7

LEGAL LOTTERIES

INQUIRY IN BRITAIN

ATTITUDE OF HOSPITALS

EFFECT Otf CHAEITY

(British Official Wireless.)

(Eeceived 19th September, 9 a.m.) BUGBY, 17th September.

Sir Arthur Stanley, president of the British Hospitals Association, giving evidence before the B.oyal Commission on lotteries and betting, said that voluntary hospitals did not wish that their needs should be made a pretext for the legalisation of lotteries, but were not opposed to legislation and would be prepared to accept money derived from properly legalised sources. The best way to manage lotteries for the safety of the community and with proper safeguards against fraud was through some statutory body on the lines of the British Broadcasting Corporation, authorised to run a limited number of public lotteries or sweepstakes. A certain percentage of the proceeds should be set aside for grants to organisations engaged in. national welfare work. Hospital workers recognised that if large sums were granted toward the maintenance of individual hospitals, however, it would have a tendency seriously todiminish charitable contributions, which now totalled eight millions pounds annually, and a considerable part of which was given by people opposed on principle to lotteries.