FORTUNE-TELLER FINED
POSING AS NUMEROLOGIST DEFENDANT EXPLAINS THE PRINCIPLE (Per United Press Association) PALMERSTON N., August 10. Arthur Hill, aged 48, posing as a numerologist, was fined £3 in the Magistrate's Court for telling fortunes. The police witnesses testified that they visited the defendant, who predicted certain events to happen to them. The defendant gave evidence that the principle of numerology was to take the name, birth and date. Each letter had a numerical value and the interpretations gave an understanding whether the person would live constructively, destructively or negatively through life. His object was to gratify the individual to live constructively: The whole principle of numerology was based on the fact that each individual was born with certain numbers which gave that individual a gratification, and his work was to determine that qualification. He did not refer to the future except as the guide to individuals to live constructively and to tell people whether it would be wise to bring their thoughts into material expression or not. The magistrate considered the system employed, even if he did not tell the future, would leave that impression with many and so brought the defendant under the Act just as it brought teacup readers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22956, 11 August 1936, Page 6
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