STATE LOTTERY

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1931, Page 5

STATE LOTTERY

NEW SOUTH WALES PLAN.

announcement expected.

It is understood that the staff has been selected for the lottery branch o the New South Wales Treasury that will function as soon as the Council of Churches intimates that it does not desire to continue further its appeal for subscriptions to the hospitals, says the Sydney correspondent of the Aigus. There are no definite appointments, but certain men and girls have reason to believe that when operations commence they will be on the pay-sheet of the new business. . .

Mr. Whiddon, late deputy commissioner of taxation, is still spoken of in wellinformed circles as the likely head of the lottery branch, but anything may happen in this , regard. Mr. Whiddon is not the grave, austere man whom those who have had some correspondence with him might expect. He is genial, with a ready smile and quip, and well esteemed by the sportsmen who gather at Tattersail’s Club.

His age sits lightly upon Mr. Whiddom Officials in the New South Wales service are retired at 65, but he was 70 when he left. The public may expect to be informed, in February as to plans for the lottery, but they can understand now that even office equipment is “as good as ordered.”