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Saturday June 3, 1972
GOVERNOR DRAWS FIRST PRIZE
of 47th Government Lottery
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, said today
that whether a subscriber to the Government lottery wins or not, he
and the community are gainers, and so "in the Lotteries Fund one beta
on a certainty."
The Governor was speaking at the City Hall this morning when
he drew the first prize of the 47th Government Lottery.
He said: "If you subscribe and do not win, your money goes
through the Lotteries Fund to social welfare, and so you become a public
benefactor which is a very nice thing to be," Sir Murray said.
"If you win, well you and that perhaps is even nicer, but
of course all your friends are encouraged by your win to subscribe
themselves, and try their own luck, and thus you will be making more
public benefactors," he said.
The following is the full text of the Governor's speech:
"My wife and I are happy to be present at this 10th Anniversary
of the Government Lottery.
"I am not surprised the lottery is so popular. The position
appears to me to be something like this. If you subscribe and do not
win your money goes through the Lotteries Fund to social welfare,
/and so