STATE LOTTERY

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 70, 2 March 1938, Page 3

STATE LOTTERY

BRISBANE'S EXPERIENCES. “The wayfarer receives a reminder or inducement in every city street in Brisbane to buy a Stateauthorised lottery ticket,” commented the Minister of Internal Affairs (the Hon. \Y. E. Parry), who has returned to Wellington from a trip to Australia. "One has only to step a liw cards along any of the city thoroughfares to have blazoned before the eyes notices written in chalk on blackboards reading: “fry your luck in the Golden Casket; a ticket from us secured the fifth prize of n;!(l(l,’ Or, ‘Step inside and you’ll bag 1 the winner in the Golden Caskci.’” The rush l’or full tickets, halttickets, and so on, in the lottery was phenomenal, the Minister continued. “Question the economic soundness of the lottery method ol a participant getting rich quick, and a smile, full of meaning, spreads over his face, others point with pride to a large and commodious brick hospital, erected in the shape of a cross, and to an almost equally largo nurses’ hostel, I lot It immense slnielni'es standing out prominently on a rise within the eit\ area. 'There's the answer; all out of the lottery—-eh, what.” they say, us the subject of the remarks is