STATE LOTTERIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 10

STATE LOTTERIES

ro nuc eiutob Sir—l note with much satisfaction that the proposal by Mr Ross that the Otago Hospital Board should urge the Government to authorise State lotteries for the benefit of hospitals did not meet with the approval of the board, and was withdrawn. Dr Newlands was right when he spoke of the comparatively small amount which the. hospitals in Australia actually receive after deduction of the costs of administration and the prizes. May I suggest to the lady member of the board that she read my . letter on the subject which you published on December 3, and note especially that with its advocates the question appears to be entirely one of money, with a complete absence of any reference to the much more important matter of the effect upon the higher hfe of the community and of its youth? . , • I trust that it is indicative of a lack of support to the proposal in this country that neither your very forcible article of November 29 nor my letter or that of Mr J. R. Nelson expressing warm approval thereof have callecf forth any reply from its advocates.—i am, etc.. F * B - December 16.