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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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