HOMES FOR WORKERS
THE LOTTERY PROPOSAL. Mr F. Norris, of Masterton, secretary of the National "Service League .has received the following communication from the Department of Internal Affairs, dated November 13th : '••Sir,—With reference to your letter of 13th September last addressed to the Right Hon. the Prime Minist4er and referred to this office, respecting homes for soldiers and workmen, I am directed by the Minister of Internal Affairs to inform you that the scheme for a Soldiers' Home Building Society with an authorised capital of £50,000, does not appear to involve a lottery, but would seem to be a matter to be den It with by tlie formation of a Company. Your No. 2 suggestion, however, whereby the sum of £ISOO may be won, and the profits to he handed to a crippled soldier, involvt-s a lottery, and the Minister of Internal Affairs regrets he is unable to see his way to. grant permission to hold the same."
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Wairarapa Age, 18 November 1919, Page 5
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