Lottery Draw

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29801, 18 April 1962, Page 8

Lottery Draw

Sir, —Further to “J.J.K.’s" letter dated Match 16 on the lottery draw, I have noted your answer regarding baskets. As a matter of academic interest I have often pondered on the drawing of the old art union whereby four-figure numbers and under were eliminated from the draw, none of the above ever appearing in the results. If a zero having been drawn from the first basket, and a zero appearing again on the draw from the second basket, was it replaced and the drawing continued until such time as a numeral appeared? —Yours, etc., IS THAT THE ANSWER?

April 13, 1962. [Mr N. McArthur, secretary of Hammond and McArthur. Ltd., licensee of the Golden Kiwi lottery, said: “In the drawing of the art unions and in the lotteries the first basket has marbles with two numbers. In art unions from 01 up to the highest first two numbers of toe tickets issued, eg., if the highest number issued was 305,000, the highest number marble would be 30: thus the lowest number that could be drawn was 010.000. In the lotteries toe lowest marble has 00 and the highest 24. In the event of 000,000 appearing, this is regarded as 250,000.”]

Board, which urgently needs loan money for catchment works, and the North Canterbury Catchment Board, which needs a loan for urgent catchment works such as soil erosion and river control —Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED NATIONALIST April 17, 1962.