LOTTERIES SCHEME
CITY OF NEW YORK 1 • , j(: INTENTION OF THE MAYOR. NEW YORK. August 23 The Mayor of New York, Mr. la Guardia, proposes to raise 12,000,000 dollars a year by running municipal lotteries. More than 1,000,000 people in New York are on the dole, and the civic expenses for July reached the record amount -of 16,000,000 dollars. A national conference on the question of legalising lotteries has been called by prominent New York citizens, who point to the Postmaster-General's estimate that 2,000,000,000 dollars is sent from the United States every year for tickets in the Irish sweepstakes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21893, 31 August 1934, Page 11
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99LOTTERIES SCHEME New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21893, 31 August 1934, Page 11
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