South Australia - Social Matters
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- State Lotteries
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Gambling
State Lotteries
"The Unrivalled Grand Colonial Lottery" is advertised in the Observer,18 January 1851, page 1b,
"Art Unions" on
20 February 1858, page 6g,
"An Art Union for the Colonies" on
3 June 1871, page 7g.
"Bazaars and Raffles" is in the Express,
28 November 1866, page 2e,
"Raffles, Lotteries, etc, for Religious Purposes" in the Observer,
16 July 1870, page 3g,
"Bazaars and Gambling" in the Express,
31 May 1895, page 2c.
"The Lottery Nuisance" is the subject of an editorial in the Register,
15 November 1874, page 4e:
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One Attorney-General affects to regard lotteries as a scandal and a disgrace to the community...; another looks upon them with a lenient eye... It is to be hoped that action will be taken to repress the more fully-developed and more mischievous forms of gambling.
(Also see Register,
10 July 1875, page 4e,
16 September 1875, page 4e.)
"Art Union in London - SA Prize-Takers" is in the Register,
24 June 1876, page 7c,
Observer,
8 July 1876, page 14e; also see
22 June 1878, page 12b,
Register,
30 November 1883, page 6e,
13 June 1884, page 6h,
"Art Union of SA" in the Register,
7 March 1881, page 5b.
"How Art Unions Are Worked" is in the Register,
6 January 1882, pages 4g-5a; also see
14 January 1882, pages 5a-1d (supp.).
"Evasions of the Gaming Act" is in the Register,
2 April 1878, page 4d,
Observer,
6 April 1878, page 10b,
"The Lotteries Act" on
1 June 1878, page 11d,
29 November 1879, page 3a,
Register,
28 November 1879, page 4f.
"The Lottery and Gaming Act" is in the Register,
6 September 1882, pages 4d-6b,
Observer,
9 September 1882, page 18b.
"Sweeps and Lotteries" is in the Register,
29 September 1882, page 5a.
"The Lottery Bill" is in the Advertiser,
2 August 1890, page 6d.
"Raid on a Lottery" is in the Register,
2, 11 and 13 September 1907, pages 5b, 7e and 8f.
"Lotteries and Prize Packets" is in the Register,
8 October 1907, page 9c.
"Gramophone Raffle - Heavy Penalties" is in the Register,
26 January 1912, page 10a.
"Art Unions" is in the Register,
10 August 1916, page 4c.
"State Lotteries" in the Register on
1 September 1913, pages 6d-10a,
29 July 1920, page 4e:
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Solvency purchased on such terms must prove illusory as well as immoral.
"State Must Not Support Public Lotteries" is in The Mail,
8 August 1931, page 8d,
"Lottery Scheme for SA" on
1 July 1933, page 2g.
"Art Union Suggested" is in The News,
16 March 1934, page 1d,
"Lure of the Lottery" on
23 March 1934, page 4e,
7 May 1934, page 4e,
"How State Lottery Would Help SA" on
15 August 1934, page 5g.
"Public Lotteries" is in the Advertiser,
6 July 1933, page 8e,
"Lotteries" on
23 July 1934, page 8d:
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It is not for nothing, as a glance at history will show, that the Government came down thus heavily on a form of gambling which so fearfully corrupted the public mind in past generations, and is certainly not freed from its power of mischief by being yoked to good intentions. Lotteries of the kind now advocated in this State are sadly out of keeping with the humanitarian impulse by which no doubt their supporters are actuated.
State lotteries are discussed in the Advertiser,
16, 18, 24 and 30 August 1934, pages 9c, 20b, 28d and 8f.
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[Its] introduction would not only involve the loss of South Australia's reputation for real leadership in the realm of Australian culture, but would directly endanger the maintenance of that rather higher tone of social morality upon which this State has had good reason to pride itself for nearly a hundred years.
(Advertiser, 8 October 1934, page 18e.)
"The Argument About a Lottery" is in The News,
2 October 1934, page 4d; also see
27 November 1935, page 5e,
12 December 1935, page 12c.
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If by means of a State lottery, we could thus retain some of the money now going across the border, would this suffice to compensate us for the evil consequences of the stimulus that would inevitably be given to gambling in general from one end of the State to the other.
(Advertiser,
7 January 1936, page 15d; also see
8 January 1936, page 18d.)
We may specially congratulate ourselves on this final deliverance from the perils of a public lottery.
(Advertiser, 18 September 1936, page 24c.)
Also see The News,
20 and 21 February 1936, pages 16f and 4f,
The Mail,
11 July 1936, page 1a.
"SA Art Union Launched" is in The Mail,
22 February 1936, page 1a.
