FIVE STATE LOTTERIES.
DISPOSAL OF PROFITS. NOT A PENNY TO HOSPITALS. MR. LANG QUESTIONED. CONTROVERSY IN PROGRESS. By Telegraph Press Association-Copyright. (Received September 23, 10.55 p.m..) SYDNEY, Sept. 23. The Premier of New South Wales, Mr. J. T. Lang, was bombarded with questions in the Legislative Assembly as to whether the Government intended to earmark the profits from the State lotteries for hospitals, as originally he promised to do. He was reminded that five lotteries already have been drawn, each of which yielded a profit of about £9OOO, not one penny of which had been given to the hospitals, which urgently required help. Mr. Lang merely replied that the Government would help the hospitals as it always had done. Critics of the Government have now discovered that there is no provision whatever in the Lotteries Act specifying that the profits should go to the hospitals. A lively controversy is proceeding in this connection.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20986, 24 September 1931, Page 9
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