In replying to a Melbourne deputation representing the churches, the Australian Federal Treasurer, Mr. W. A. Watt, declined to prohibit lotteries for war fund purposes. Mr. Watt said that under what the deputation called the lottery system Australia was doing what had been done by the British Government without raising a protest m the religious aommunity. The success of the plan In England might be measured by the fact that Self ridge's sold £20,«W,000 m bonds m three days Mf giving small prizes, lit a few days he would have the result analysed, and ha would be able to judge whether the scheme was worth the price. He meant the price of over-riding the laws of f,he "States and m other ways, if it was. not worth thp price there wou,ld ba no. repetitive regulations. "If 'vow throat i* aore and irritable, «** Vmql} ft WB fiT© you f«lfef.-6.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14596, 4 May 1918, Page 7
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