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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 245, 16 October 1931, Page 6

This Depression. Speaking at the Patea Jubilee dinner on Tuesday night in reply to the toast to the pioneers, Air. H. Locker said that the present depression was quite a small affair to the slump which affected New Zealand in the eighties. Lawn Tennis Activity. The spring is generally accepted as the season in which lawn tennis commences to display a considerable amount of activity, and tho present month docs not appear to be any exception to tho accepted rule. In Wanganui the majority of the clubs, large and small, have launched their season’s activities, though it is as yet early for the more important competitions to bo commenced. The coming summer months promise to find sti’l more enthusiasts taking up tho game in which tho lato Anthony Wilding found such fame for New Zealand. State Lotteries. A unanimous appeal to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. A. Hamilton, to resist all suggestions that money for relief and other purposes should be raised by art unions or lotteries was recorded by tho Auckland Presbytery on Wednesday. The presbytery protested against the introduction of any form of State lottery and described such enterprises as debasing to the moral and spiritual interests of the community. The Rev. 8. J. Atkins, in moving the resolution, which was adopted, said that those who were concerned for the moral, spiritual and economic ideals of the community had been very much concerned of lato at the development of art unions and lotteries. They had. however, been heartened by the fact that the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and the Auckland War Alemorial Museum authorities had recently opposed any suggestion of this kind.