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and in this connection I would refer in
particular to paragraph 6 below.
5. In your telegram No.677 you suggest a
brstate lottery as a simple and acceptable means
of raising additional funds, and this was
indeed one of the expedients which was already
being discussed with the Financial Secretary.
In my telegram No. 794 of the 16th July I
informed you that I could not agree to the
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adoption of this expedient in present
circumstances and promised to give my reasons
for this decision. It is true that state
lotteries are at present in operation in
Malta and Gibraltar. That in Malta has been
ecube in existence for many years. That in
Dne 19. Gibraltar was sanctioned last year on the
5.3 particular ground that the inhabitants of the
bago Colony participated largely in lotteries
en of across the border in Spain and that it was
sbemyn.considered more desirable that the Colony
& 'should benefit from this activity than a
a foreign country. I do not regard lotteries
{..generally as a desirable expedient because
sus gulzut they are an uncertain source of revenue and
ontheir introduction tends to encourage local of sitte 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 gambling activities in such
forms as abetting tax, this does not involve,
as a state lottery does, the organisation of
gambling by the state. I am therefore averse
from sanctioning the establishment of state
lotteries except in very special circumstances
or where it is established that no alternative
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