STATE LOTTERIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21055, 18 June 1930, Page 8

STATE LOTTERIES.

ESTABLISHMENT IN DOMINION. FARMERS’ UNION REJECTS 1 PROPOSAL. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, June 17. A proposal that the Government be aeked to conduct State lotteries for the upkeep of hospital and charitable aid boards was submitted to the Farmers’ Umon conference, this evening, but after a brief debate was thrown out. Mr J. Pow was proceeding to read particulars of the State lottery ‘run by the Wueensland Government when a delegate objected to anything being introduced on penalt of someone not present. A member: Don’t you send your money to Hobart? The chairman (Mr W. J. Poison) said he hoped the conference would not do anything which would make .anyone believe they were supporting State lotteries A voice: It has been a pet theory for a n ? it 11156 a °f money goes out ot New Zealand every year in This way, v Another delegate: And a lot of it comes back. I can see no harm in it, but why send our money to Tasmania? The chairman replied that he could not rule the remit out of order, but it would P e unfortunate if they seriously discussed it. It would create a wrong impression ln the mmcis of the public if they did. Mr Rushworth moved that ,the question be put. Mr O P. Lynch; I think it is a most extraordinary thing to have the-chairman prejudicing a motion on .the order paper before we have heard it. I never heard such a preposterous business iB my life. It is extraordinary, I am prepared to move the remit. The chairman then put the question, which he said would, if carried, have the effect of excluding the remit. r This was put and carried, and the dis-. cussion closed.