DR. CAMERONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, with reference to the lottery got up by Mr. W. Hunter, Supervisor of Inland Revenue, Glasgow, in aid of the lad Miller, if he will state the total sum realised by the sale of tickets, and the various disbursements (including any commission paid to sellers of tickets), and the amount of each; and whether the accounts of the lottery were audited; and, if so, when, and by whom?
SIR JOHN GORSTI am informed that the gross receipts on the lottery got up by Mr. W. Hunter, Supervisor of Inland Revenue, Glasgow, in aid of the lad Miller, were £1,135 5s. 8d., and the expenses (printing tickets, postage, cost of prizes, premium clocks, and payments to clerks) were £759 6s., leaving a balance of £375 19s. 8d., out 1060 of which payments have already been made to the Miller family amounting to £77, and the balance, £298 19s. 8d., is vested in Trustees. The accounts were not audited by anyone except Mr. Hunter himself, but he has assured the Board of Inland Revenue that "not a single penny of the money received for the boy Miller has ever been used for his own benefit."
DR. CAMERONThe right hon. Gentleman has not said the amount of commission which has been paid to the sellers.
SIR JOHN GORSTI am afraid I cannot discriminate between the sums. I have no information to enable me to discriminate the commission from the other accounts.