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GOLDEN CASKET
RECORD SALES
Eighty Drawings for Year
BRISBANE. Sunday.— This year
Queensland's Golden Casket will
collect in sales £2,500,000— the
greatest money-spinning year on
record. The war boom in money
and lavish ticket-buying by Ameri
can and Australian Servicemen
have lifted sales to an all-time
record. The estimate of £2,500,000
by the end of June compares with
the previous highest of £1,900,000
in 1938-39. It is equal to an aver
age Investment of £2/10/ by every
man, woman and child in Queens
land.
In 1942-43 the snles return was
£1,500,000 — which means a Jump of
£1,000,000 in sales in a year.
Golden Caskets practically sell
themselves these times, They are
run oil at the rate of three in
every two weeks, Back in 1917,
when the lottery was flrst started,
a Casket took six months to fill.
Queensland's Golden Casket by
now is quite a business. It has out
grown the vicissitudes of the early
war years.
For instance, after 1030-39's
gross sales of £1,900,000 there was
a drop of £1,675,000 in 1039-40, and
to £1,300,000 in 1041-42.
But the return of troops from
the Western Desert and the ar
rival of American forces changed
all that. In 1942-43 the gross take
rose to £1,514,000, nnd the esti
mated takings for 1943-44 are
£2,500,000.
Hero is how the money goes,
based on last year's figures: Prize
money, 64 per cent.; profits, 24
per cent.; tax, 5 per cent.; com
mission, 5 per cent.; wages, 1 per
cent.; working expenses, 1 per
Out of this year's take the State
Government will get £750,000 for
hospitals expenditure. The Red
Cross and other patriotic funds
will get £50,000.
In the earlier war years Casket
drawings were averaging about
one a week. This year the Casket
Office already has had 70 drawings
and it expects to make 80 by the
end of the year — June 30.
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