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revenue as and when opportunity permits;
and in this connection I would refer in
particular to paragraph 6,below.
5. In your telegram No. 677 you suggest
a state lottery as a simple and acceptable
means of raising additional funds and this.
which was indeed one of the expedients I was
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already discusst with the Financial-
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Secretary. In my telegram No. 794 of the
16th July I informed you that I could not
agree to the adoption of this expedient in
present circumstances and promøsed to give my
reasons for this decision. It is true that
state lotteries are at present in operation 105
in Malta and Gibraltar. That in Malta has
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been in existence for many years. That in-
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Gibraltar was sanctioned last year on the..
particular ground that the inhabitants of the
Colony participated largely in lotteries
across the border in Spain and that it was
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considered more desirable that the Colony should
benefit from this activity than a foreign
country. I do not regard lotteries generally
as a desirable expedient because they are an
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uncertain source of revenue and their
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introduction tends to encourage local
populations in the belief that their financial
problems have been solved without recourse to
more realistic and drastic measures; moreover,
even though the state may take tribute from
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gambling activities in such forms as a betting
tax, this does not involve, as a state lottery
does,