§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Lord Advocate whether, in view of the fact that on 6th February last a subscription sale and prize drawing at Perth, in aid of a minister and widow women respectively, was suppressed, he will state on what grounds raffling and prize drawings were permitted in connection with Wallacetown Parish Church, Dundee, on the 20th and 21st March last.
(Answered by Mr. A. Graham Murray.) The hon. Member's information is not quite accurate. There was a prize drawing in aid of a widow in Perth to which, presumably, the hon. Member refers, which, in the special circumstances, was not suppressed. The lottery in aid of the minister referred to was for the purpose of raising money to enable him to carry on a litigation against his colleague. It was accordingly in an entirely different category from the prize drawings in Dundee, which were for a purely charitable object.