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Saturday, June 3, 1972
and so you become a public benefactor which is a very nice thing to be.
If you win, well you win 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.
Either way you and the community are gainers. So in the Lotteries Fund
one bets on a certainty, which is why I subscribe myself.
"The projects helped by the Lotteries Fund range from nurseries
to vocational training and from rehabilitation for the handicapped to
care for the aged. Over 140 projects, all recommended by the Social
This Welfare Advisory Committee have benefited in the past five years.
represents a very significant contribution to the social welfare services
in Hong Kong.
"Considerable planning and organisation goes into these lotteries,
their success has depended on the hard work and initiative of successive
members of the Management Committee, unofficial and official members
alike, and I should like to take this opportunity to thank them all for
devoting so much of their time and experience to this excellent cause.
"Finally I should like to congratulate the public on their
growing support for what I suggest to everyone is the best bet in town.
"It now gives me great pleasure to draw the first prize of
the 47th Government Lottery."
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