“Every person with a bee in his bonnet has offered us things to raffle,” observed the chairman of the Patriotic Society executive (Mr H. G. Hill), when a letter was received from a man asking the society to purchase his house and raffle it for the wounded soldiers’ fund. The suggestion was “turned down,” and the chairman said that he had all sorts of offers for raffles, including motor boats, horses, cows, and carts.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9093, 12 July 1915, Page 3
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