CO129-597-2 Estimates 1949 1-3-1948 - 14-7-1949 — Page 176

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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,