LURE OF SWEEPS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 192, 14 August 1931, Page 6

LURE OF SWEEPS.

More Long Shots at Wealth from Overseas. LIMERICK SENDS TICKETS. Long shots at wealth through the medium of art unions and a variety ot overseas sweepstakes are being offered in. plenty to New Zealanders just now. A further batch of tickets in a new Irish hospital sweep has arrived. Tickets in earlier Irish hospitals sweeps were difficult to obtain; to-day the recipients of books are finding it difficult to dispose of tickets because so many others have them. Mindful of the legal ban on the sweep outside of Ireland, the promotion matter contains ample warnings concerning methods by which the law may be circumvented. An interesting development of the big Irish sweep is the promotion of smaller ones, in which the prizes are batches of tickets in the big sweep. These have their origin in Limerick and they are stated to be under the patronage of the Mayor of that city. The tickets are offered at a shilling each and there is the usual offer of free tickets to agents for their trouble in selling them. One sweep is announced to be “ in aid of a very deserving charity,” but the other is more explicit, being promoted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for the raising of funds with which to build a church for an orphanage they maintain. From the Principality of Lichenstein, which, the promoters advise, is near Austria, have come chances of participating in a £90,000 sweepstake on the Cesarewitch, to be run at Newmarket, England, on October 14. A Mutual Club, Limited, claims a concession from the principality to conduct the sweep and, in addition to tickets, supplies an address to which they may be forwarded. In view of the fact that a package received last week was posted in the West End of London and that the address supplied is that of some unknown person in Austria, it seems difficult to accept the advice to “subscribe only through a friend or trusted acquaintance, whose address and credentials are known to you.”