CARNIVAL ART UNIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 9

CARNIVAL ART UNIONS

LISTS OF PRIZE-WINNERS. TWO IN SOUTH ISLAND. PATRIOTIC FUND WINS £520. PRIZE FOR SOLDIERS' CLCB. The drawings of the two art unions conducted in connection with the Auckland Queen Carnival were carried out list evening by the carnival executive. There were 47 prizes, valued in the aggregate at £6868. The sum raised by means of the art unions for the carnival fund was about £10.600. Three of the prizes, totalling £520, will be paid back to the fund.

| The drawings were conducted in the carnival executive's offices in the Tram way Buildings. About 100 people watched the proceedings. The executive of the carnival was represented by .Messrs. Geor«e Elliot, chairman. Eliot Davies, J. J. Walklate, Charles Rhodes. E. Anderson. J. J. Kingston and M. M. Louisson. The prcceeding.s were supervised on behalf of the police by Detective Cullen. The subscribers were represented by Miss Montgomery, who was nominated by those present to draw the marbles from the box, and by a gentleman who scrutinised the tickets indicated by the numbers drawn. Mr. Elliot explained that the drawings had been postponed from the date originally fixed owing to delayin the return of some of the tickets and butts. All had now been received, and every subscriber would participate in the drawing. Result of Silver Art Union. The allocation of the prizes, totalling £2500. in the silver art union, is as follows : — First prize, value £1000—No. 11,994, L W. Wright, City Club Hotel. Second prize, value £500— No. 190,000, Auckland Dental Association. Third prize, value £250— No. 169,004 Smeaton and party, Waihi. Fourth prize, value £200—No. 106,652, Miss Bassett, Ponsonby. Fifth prize, value £150— No. 45,031 Mrs E. Killip, Para ell. Sixth prize, value £100—No. 122.161, J. Loekington (no address supplied). Seventh prize, value £50—No. 154,586, Ben Tozer, Ellerslie. Eighth prize, value £25.— 25,398, Sid. Wkwood, Mamaku. Ninth prize, value £25—No. 104,787, H. Blucher, Waikino. Tenth prize, value £20—No. 15,642 C Wood, Hamilton. Eighteen prizes valued at £10 each — IW'WA Dargaville; No. or'?°' C - E - Armstrong, Hamilton; No. fj'Sf' hB - a"on. Gisbome; No. Toif?A M* 8 " Wri « ht - Devonport; No. cV°^i Au ckland Dental Association ; No. SHoc' V?- Hitkmafl . Whangarei; No. a 2' P - Mitchell, Lands Department, Auckland ; No. 18.929, -. Ross, Auckland Club; No. 61,119, L. Gronden, Paerate.; No. 38,746, Mrs. Alex. Burt, Shellv Beach v* ad o ; „ A£- 61 ' 466 ' Mrs - Epsom ; , 0 :., 24,082, S. Upton. Heme Bav; No —a <- C - K - Sams ' Christchurcfi = No 010. >gata, Kahukura : No. 194 R J Durrow, Paeroa; No. 86,761, B. Watkina East Coast; No. 22,759. W. B. Duncan Armadale, Remuera: No. 189,316, Auckland Dental Association. Prizes in " B " Art Union.

I Following are the winners of the prizes in the •• B " art union:— First prize, six-cylinder Wolselev touring car, presented by Mr. W. B.'Levland, value £1075-No. 5121, R. Rooks Maungatapere. Second prize, four sections Arborfield Estate, Ladies' Mile, presented bv Mr. Bertram Dawson, value £68fcV— 25,429, A. Nicholson, Kingsland. Third prize, motor yacht Sterling, presented by Jagger Bros., value £600— No. 42,969, Arnold Sparrow, Nelson. Fourth prize, section on Epsom Avenue presented by Mr. and Mrs. J. J.' Craig, value £300—No. 41,083, A. "vSatson, Bank of New Zealand. Fifth prize, launch Hinemoa, presented bv Mr. C. A. Whitney, value £300— 149, Parker and Eirkwood, Queen Street. Sixth prize, section No. 2, Pleasantfield Estate, Remuera, presented bv Mr. D. R. Caldwell, value £259—N0. ! 44,320, F. Graham, Taupiri. Seventh prize, section No. UO. Main | Street, Huntly, presented by Mr. W I Ralph, value £200—No. 3044—E Queenin, Horeke Hotel, Hokianga. Eighth prize, section No. 109, Main Street Huntly, presented by Mr. E. V. and Miss S. M. Ralph, value £200—No. 44,613, C. Armiger, Dargaville.. Ninth section at Takapuna, pre- : sented by Mr. W. J. Napier, value £184— No. 656, T. E. Cooper, Russell Street, Devonport. Tenth prize, thoroughbred mare, presented by Messrs. R. and R. Duder, value £157 10s—No. 42,629, W. Clererley, Tiritiri lighthouse. Eleventh prize, section in Finch Street, Morningside, presented by Mr. S. Finch, value £156—N0. 2539, Jacov Sapich, Kaikohe. Twelfth prize, solid oak bedroom suite, presented by Tonson Garlick Co., Ltd., value £100—No. 77,929, .Soldiers' Club (ticket presented by Mr. C. Rhodes]. Thirteenth prize, pair of horses and harness, presented by the Hon. (i. Fowlds, value 43,069, H. Brown, Dargaville. Fourteenth prize, four-wheeled dogcart, presented bv Mr. T. Buxton, value £30—No. 12,166, W. St. J. Clarke, Auckland Tramways Company's staff. Fifteenth prize, oil painting, " Scene at Dardanelles," presented bv Mr. P. J. Goldfinch, value £21—No. 41,851,

Florence Wade, Turakina. Sixteenth prize, oak dining-room suite, presented by Mr. J. D. Roberts, value £20—No. 31,287, W. A. Burgess, Pakuranga. Seventeenth prize, oil painting, New Zealand scenery, presented bv Mr. G. Stewart, value" £20—No. 7450, Edith Sergeant, Netherton. Eighteenth prize, 1£ horse-power oil engine, presented bv Mr. W. S. Fowler, value £15-— No. 16,813, J. Gleeson, Parnell. Nineteenth prize, roller-top office desk, presented bv Mr. E. H. Chamber] m, value £7 10s— No. 25.864, Mrs:. H. C. Williams, Cape Runaway. Finding the Winning Numbers. The apparatus used in the drawings was that employed in the Crown land ballots. Ten marbles, bearing the numbers 0 to 9, were used. In the case of the silver art union, the last ticket sold was No. 190,000 —which won the second prize. Each time the marbles 0 and 1 were alone placed in the box, and whichever of these was drawn first determined whether the winning number should be one of six or five figures. Then all the numbers were placed in tin box five times, and one marble was drawn each time, so that a complete number of five or six figures was eventually compiled. When a number formed in this way proved to correspond with an unsold ticket, the process had to be repeated. All the tickets were arranged in consecutive order in trays, and the selected number was quickly found. There were 62 numbers drawn in connection with the silver art union. Of them, 26 were of six figures, including nine prize-winning numbers; 34 of five figures, including 17 prize-winning numbers; and two of three figures, which appeared consecutively, both winning a prize of £10 each. Altogether, the numbers of 34 unsold tickets were drawn. Eleven prizes were allotted on the first drawing, six on the second, six on the third, four on the fourth, and one -the first prize—not until the fifth.

The prizes in the Silver Art Union w<j drawn first. Ten minutes were occupf in drawing the winning ticket for the if T>«ze, the numbers of four tickets that A not been sold being drawn, before /- 11.994 appeared. Then the mutr 390.000. that of the. last ticket sold, is drawn for the second prize. This waste of 3000 tickets bought by the AuckJd Dental Association, which had prontd that any prizes it won would be donp to the Patriotic Fund. The 15th and!e 28th prizes, each of £10, were also wenT the Dental Association. The third pf fell to a ticket in a book bought by. party of subscribers in Waihi. Onlv ? prize, the 23rd, was secured bv a tic* subscribed by a resident outside ♦ Auckland Province. The drawing of tJ art union was completed at 0.30 p.m. / The Gifts to the Fund. / . The same method was followed in dk»i£ the •' B" art union, in which prizes were gifts made to the fund, /he last ticket sold was No. 950. Tfcro were 40 numbers draw a in' eoimJion with this art union. Of them 31 v.l of nve figures, including 15 prize-wiing numbers, six ~f four figures, induing tour prize-winning numbers, and £ of three figures. byth of which won fizes. i il ° "Ambers of 21 unsold ticket/were iiiawn Am o prizes were allotted the irst drawing, f our on the 0 J and two on the third, while three oth* were allotted on the fourth, fifth, a/sixth drawings respectively. Only on) prize, the third was won by a rcsidenfnitside the Auckland Province. The six! prize, valued at £100, was won bv i ticket which had been presented bvMlCharles Rhodes to the Soldiers' Club tI drawing was completed shortly after l\p.m