BRITISH LOTTERIES

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3849, 4 October 1932, Page 8

BRITISH LOTTERIES

POSITION OF HOSPITALS LEGALISATION ISSUE (Aiist. and N.Z. Cable) , London. October 1. Sir Arthur Stanley, pregideuit oi the British Hospitals' Association, ivji.'g; evidence bcifore the Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting, said that voluntary hospitals did not wish that 'their needs should we made a pretext for the legislation of lotteries, but they were not opposed to legislation and would be prepared to accept money derived tom properly legalised sources. The best way to manage lotteries for the safety of the community and with proper safeguards against fraud he said. was. through some statutory body, on the lines of the British ■ Broadcasting Corporation, a.nV her is - ed to run a limited number of publie lotteries or sweepstakes. A certain percentage of the proceeds should be set aside for grants to organisation engaged in national Welfare work.k Hospital workers recolt iscd t’’-at if large sums were granted toward the maintenance of individual hospitals, however. it would have a, tendency serioully to diminish charitable contribution which now totalled £8,000,000 ■' year, and a considerable part of which was given by people opposed on. prTnmplfc. to lotteries-