ART UNION TICKETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20405, 6 November 1929, Page 10

ART UNION TICKETS.

EQUAL' €HANCE .FOR ALL',

USE OF DUPLICATE BUTTS. The winner of the first pme of £2OOO in the Auckland Aero Club's art union, Mrs. E. Stone, has lately been employed as a housekeeper at Pahiatua. She in an old resident of the district and has brought up a large family.- She obtained the ticke.fc through the Napier agency. It has been published that Mrs. Stone, forwarded the butt of the ticket direct to Auckland and that otherwise it might have been too late for the drawing. The returning of the 'duplicate butt had actually no influence on the participation of the ticket in the draw. Officials who controlled the art union state that the checking-up shows that every ticket sold participated in the ballot. The duplicate butts wqre provided simply to give the purchaser a means of satisfying himself that the original butts had been returned. They served no useful purpose so far as the internal working of the art union was concerned.

The checks and records kept by the staff engaged for the art union were independent of the return of any or all of the duplicates. Indexed books were kept in which appeared the numbers of every book of tickets issued. When the ticket-book passed-out of the organiser's hands a mark was made in the record book and when the butts of the tickets were returned another entry was made. When duplicate butts were sent in the numbers wero looked up in the record book and the' original butts located. Ihe organiser was then able to advise the inquirer that tho transaction was complete and that the seller of the book had returned thQ butts.

The officials, however, traced the out-, going and return of all tickets through their marked record books, and toward the close of the art union a final round up was made of people who were still holding books or butts. Through inevitable procrastination a few butts wero gathered in only at the eleventh hour, but the Aero Club officials finally succeeded in calling in all that had been issued.

Some confusion has arisen over the name of the winner of the second pnze, £SOO, in the Aero Club art union, states a Press Association message from G.sborne. The winner was given as Miss Eva McLaughlin, post office, Gisborne, The winner is Mr. E. V. McLachlan, who resides at Rere.