LOTTERIES SCHEME
CITY OF NEW YORK INTENTION OF THE MAYOR. NEW YORK, Aug. 23. The Mayor of New York, Mr. li Guardia, proposes to raise 12,000,00, dollars a year by running municipal lotteries. More than 1,000,000 people in New York are on the dole, and the civic expenses for July reached the record amount of 16,000,000 dollars. A national conference on the question of legalising lotteries has been called by prominent New York citizens, who point to the Postmaster-General’s estimate that 2,000,000 dollars is sent from the United States every year for tickets in the Tri<h sweepstakes.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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97LOTTERIES SCHEME Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 5
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