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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13935, 18 December 1905, Page 5

State lotteries add to the incomes of foreign Governments. In Italy they bring the Government in a sum of nearly £2,500,000 a year. In-Prussia the profits of the public lottery amount to no less than £4,250,000. The Dutch Government gets the nice little sum or £50.000 profit out of its lottery. Portugal makes about £70,000 in tine . vray. Denmark makes a profit or £oa,UUO. And in Brazil, where the Government does not itself run the lottery, but collects a tax on the receipts of private lotteries. the amount realised is £17,000.