£1,000,000 LOTTERY

Grey River Argus, 6 August 1937, Page 8

£1,000,000 LOTTERY

N.S.W. PROPOSAL. SYDNEY, July 26. Questioned last night c( ’ l ' icern the revived proposal for a £1,000,000 lottery, which the president ot the Hospitals' Association, Mr. B. J. Kenna, suggests should be conducted in connection with the 150th Anniversary Celebrations, the Minister for Health, Mr. FitzSimons, said that, he had not considered the scheme, and refused to make any further comment. Mr. Kenna’s proposal is that prizes should amount to £500,0000 and, allowing £lO,OOO for expenses, £490,000 should go towards the upkeep of the hospitals. Bear, and a small boat in sight. It took a terrible time for them to put the small boats ashore. I was in the second boat with the baby and the coon who was driving the engine let us drift for an hour and then when he started the engine we went round and round in circles. But nt last we set off, and had to pass quite close to the volcano. Talk about a terrible and yet a wonderful sight! I couldn’t explain it. Just before we reached the wharf at Kokopo, we saw the old crater on the other side blow up and erupt mud and filth and bilows of smoke. “Women on our boat screamed and sobbed. I thought Mrs. would go crazy. She sobbed terribly. Reckoned that’s where the policemen were.

Coming over on the boat several times I had to console baby as a couple of times she got scared, and I .think that kept me cool. I sang to her and pattea her on the boat and hummed ‘Nearer, my God, to Thee.' “Another boatload arrived at the same time as us, and 1 met Mrs. McFarlane, and she said to go with her to Mr. Walker’s house (the police master) and here we are. Nearly everyone is jammed up in the mission and other houses, and here are Mrs. Mac and I with a house to ourselves—we are lucky. HER HUSBAND. “I could get no news of Vic. and still felt as if I could never sleep Mrs. Mac and 1 were sitting on the verandah, talking and listening to the volcano rumbling, and watching the lightning over the volcano, and I just said, ‘Mum wanted me to stay down in Sydney a few more months. I would have been out of this if 1 had, and yet in another way I’m glad I’m here, to get earlier news of Vic’s fate,’ when a voice said 'Hello,' and in walked Vic.”