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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11304, 1 September 1922, Page 10

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METHODS OF RAISING MONEY. N.S.'W. LOTTERY BILL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 31. In the New South Wales Assembly the. Lotteries' and Art .Onion. Bill was, read a second-time;.-The Bill was then forced through committee before the House rose, the Government refusing to sooept any amendments. - The ' Attorney General, Mr T. R. Bavin, said the Law was being amended to protect the public from methods which had been adopted of raising money in connection with art unions at carnivals, which had bred a class of professional promoters who were of no use to the community. The appetite for gambling , which these methods promoted was‘growing hy what it fed upon: The unfortunate part of the business' was that those most -attracted by th& gambling element were chaldron, ■fle quoted numerous instance© of carnivals where the : expenses were far in exrass of what the objects -for which the carnivals were - promoted the expenses were £8666. £3652, ,and £Bll respectively, and the amounts handed over £1163, £ll, and £lO respectively. The Bill contains drastic provisions for safeguarding the public. 'Any newspaper publishing the results of Tattersall’s sweeps, golden caskets, or advertisements or information relating to" lotteries' outside-New South Wales is liable to a fine of £2OO. The regulations also provide ‘against indiscriminate raffles and art unions, which of late years have become so freqnent, and against the misuse of ’any funds raised by such means. Another important amendment makes the penalties summarily recoverable in the Police Court, instead of through the Supreme Court, as'previoualy.