EXPENSIVE ART UNIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16021, 6 January 1923, Page 11

EXPENSIVE ART UNIONS.

TIGHTENING UP THE LAW IN NEW SOUTH WALES'.' --••'■

SYDNEY, Dec.. 28. The New South Wales Government.is. investigating, some strange f<esos's>i art ■unions held m the State. : ,",.. ~,. ...- ; ~,'' ," ;; ... -"./ ~ -, r ,In 'one., ,'instance'...it. ibl reported that prize; money, \ip the.'ianiq.u.nt 0f,,£12,000 was guaranteed;.". The, art union, "however, ;w4s not,a- .success,, and; ,the hospital received'-only. :£33 6s Bd. out" of the proceeds that- amounted to ■ £5161. In another instance tickets were 'sold; to" the value of oyer £2200,, but after paying expenses tlie veijtuo'e was" said,to loss' of' £27(5, wbichlhad to be made, good! from the proceeds-of a carnivjal, .the. ultimate , result, being, that the hospitals secured 1 only, £sß.7 '..out. . of. proceeds amounting ...to..nearly. £12,000. Several other instances are quoted in which the profits have beon' very sinall, shelving that this' method of raising publje money can be .an* expensive business. ~. : From the).beginning of the year the amended Lotteries .and 1 Art Union. Act wjll be operative, .and it is- announced that it,will be strictly enforced'.-...

' As far ;as theLgeneral. .public'is'concernedl the, most notable alleratiops will be in "respect oif sweeps such at '-Tattersall's and! the Golden Casket.' Tlilu sale of tickets.for sweeps, and the publication of any matter concerning them will be rigidly prohibited. At the present moment there are men and women all over the . city . selling tickets, for. one art union or another. These will now have to disappear from the streets.. It is likely that there will be fewer art unions in the future as the conditions generally have been tightened U P- • -