STATE LOTTERIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21457, 3 April 1933, Page 13

STATE LOTTERIES

Sir, —Having read with much interest the correspondence for and against lotteries, which is going on in your columns, m,y» thoughts turned toward an incident which happened in Chester, England, some 45 years ago, at which time the manhood of the country were filling the Cheshire churches week by week. The spirit of intolerance raised its head and tried to get the Chester City Council to refuse permission for the annual race meeting, to he held in the city on land owned by the first Duke of Westminster. After a great deal of noise, in which His Grace took no port. Ho sent a letter to the London Times saying that if tho permit was refused, he would he compelled to discontinue his annual subscription of several thousand pounds per year, for the upkeep of the Chester Hospital, as tho money came from the race meeting, and he could not rob liis other numerous charities. Needless to say, the bishop and those who had drawn him into it, dropped tho matter at once, and Chester races arc still enjoyed by thousands each year, and the hospital continues its Christ liko work. Intolerance recoils always on the beads of its advocates and hinders tho work of the Christ tho clergy wish to serve. LI. G. Hughes. Greenhithe, April 1, 1933.