To the Editor of the fount-Cunxa Dalny News"
Si—The S.M.C. Educational Committee Report emphasizes the lack of funds although they feel that recreational facilities" are urgently needed. "It appears that $40,000, required fora gymnasium—and assembly hall for the Junior Boys! School, Far more important is the provision of decent playing fields." At 8 much smaller gute 1 am sure the Council could shift the Army. huts to, say, the 20° mow vacant lot Grout Western Road and thus extend the present playgrounds.
As an old boy of the Schoo! 1 can ook back to the effect of the change from the Boone Road premises the one near the Hongkew Park, The rise in football of the School was brought about by the youngest boys enjoying the new school facilities.
I do not wish to over-estimate the Value of sports, but facilities could be acquired by some negotiation with authorities who, Tam sure, will understand the' situation.
Boy. Shanghgl. Mar. over foreign radio lone is enough 0 show that the Lottery. is not for Chinese people only. A fact which further" illus Strates this is that one side of the teket. is" printed in English whilst there are many blue posters printed in the English language and display-fed at shops throughout China, In. spite of the fact that some of the tickets are unsold at the time of the drawing it must be kept in mind hay occasionally these numbers win handsome prizes in the drawings.
Ma, Kwok asks what difference it makes to the purchasers of these Tottery tickets to whom the two sums. of money go? The answer is this: The average Chinese who buys a. State Lottery ticket does not under~ stand the situation. To them, the advertised prizes are worth about ten times the amount they are to the average foreigner, and, being thorough gamblers, they buy o ticket hoping to_make their fortune. Most of the Chinese people who buy tickets donot know that there are other lotteries where there are higher Prizes and there is no income. tax fo be pold in case one is lucky enough to have a winning ticket. The het result is that the Government Increases Its revenue and decreases the prizes without any objection from the Chinese people. If the Govern-
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