STATE LOTTERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 15

STATE LOTTERY

CHURCHES OPPOSED

PRIME MINISTER SUPPORTED

The following statement-has been released by the leaders of churches" in Wellington:—

In view of the petition which is at present being circulated requesting the Government to. grant permission if or a State lottery, we, the representatives of Christian churches, desire'to 'express hearty approval of the Prime Minister's reiterated declaration that the Government has no intention of providing increased facilities for j gambling. We also share his anticipa- | tion that the attempt to introduce a I State lottery would split his party and provoke a determined opposition in the community, leading to the development of the very faction and strife which the Prime Minister deprecates. Signed:— For the Bishop of Wellington, Wm, Bullock, Vicar-General of the Welling-' ton Diocese. Lan W. Fraser, Moderator of the Presbytery of Wellington. Percy Paris, Chairman of the Wellington District of the Methodist Church, Lawrence A, North, General Secretary of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, Herbert W. Newail, Chairman of the Wellington District Committee of the Congregational Union of New Zealand. A. G. Saunders, Chairman of the Social Problems Committee, Associated Churches of Christ.

Fred H. Adams, Territorial Commander, Salvation Army.