LOTTERY TICKETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21258, 11 August 1932, Page 7

LOTTERY TICKETS

LEFT IN CHURCH PEWS

SEQUEL TO BISHOP'S PROTEST

Dr. Radford, Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales, addressing a largo number of men at a Communion breakfast recently in connection with the 75th anniversary of St. Matthew's Church of England, stated that at a recent Communion service he spoke of the evils of tha State Lottery, and was pleased to find after the service that two people in the church had left their lottery tickets on pews. Dr. Radford added that the conscience of every churchman should be affected in tlie same manner. It was not that they of tlie Church of England were killjoys or that the people were not disposed to accept the conditions of life in the same manner as other people, but where their churchmanship meant anything to them, it imposed upon them the obligation of resisting a State policy which invited people to stake their chances of possessing the comforts of life on the mere spin of a marble in a lottery barrel. They must stand for sound moral principles in the affairs of the State, especially when it was considered that £2,000,000 had passed through a game of chance instituted by the State Government. The responsibilities of churchmanship, the bishop said, wero also shown by the fact that recently 500.000 electors in New South Wales voted for a party which sponsored tlio State Lottery. It was improper to enrourage people in their desiro to get something for nothing.