DRAWING A BIG ART UNION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16201, 26 November 1926, Page 12

DRAWING A BIG ART UNION.

FAIR CHANCE FOR ALL. POLICE SUPERVISION. In view of the early drawing of the Kia Ora Art Union (the final Art Union with a prize list of £5000), which is being definitely drawn on December 14, in Cambridge, it will De of interest to readers to learn of the method which will be employed. The process is exceedingly simple, and ensures a thoroughly fair chance for all. In the Kia Ora Art Union, all tickets issued contain five-figure numbers. The lowest number in each letter is 20,000 and the highest 99,999. Numbered marbles are used for the drawing, and there is a separate color for each one of the five figures on the ticket, the bags being the same color as the marbles. This means that the marbles cannot be mixed. Each marble is replaced in its own bag after each draw, thug affording an opportunity of the same number winning further prizes. Before the marbles are replaced in their Dags and barrel, they are inspected by the Police. Firstly, a member of the audience draws from a bag a marble denoting an alphabetical letter, say letter 6> Then members of the audience or officials each draw in rotation a marble from each one of tho five colored bags. Of these five bags, the one' on the left contains only the numbers 2 to 9. Supposo "2" is drawn, then "2" will bo the first figure of the five-figure number to be a prize. From the next bag which contains marbles from 0 to 9 a marble is drawnsay a "5." From tho third bag say a "7," from the fourth bag perhaps a '%" and from tho fifth bag say an "8." Thus we have C 25738. When the alphabetical letter and tho five figures have been drawn, the number of the prize is taken from a revolving "barrel containing marbles numbered from 1 to 140, representing the number of prizes in the Kia Ora Art Union. This barrel is also under police supervision. Say, for instance, marble No. 18 is drawn, then this will be the eighteenth prize. It will be understood then that the prize drawn first is not necessarily the first or any particular prize. Everyono will admit that the process is a simple one, and without doubt the fairest for all concerned.

By means of the Kia Ora Bookkeeping and Audit System and apart from the double butt, there is a double check on every ticket bought and paid for. The agents must account to head office before the drawing for every ticket sold and unsold. If the number of an unsold ticket is drawn, the prize is drawn for again. Someone must get it. of course. Somebody is going to win C2oud on December 14, and on the afternoon ol that dnv the magic marnies sill respond to tlio call of those whom fortuno favors. You might be one! Oct yum tic!, t> Tf.DAY—get a book of nine and secure 1260 chances. T.ook for the Maun Ma< cot and Double Butt. The obiect.s of the Kia Ora . A i* IVi-ri are for beautifying and th Cambridge and Leanr.ngton Djina'a audi Public Gardens,*