DRAWING OF A BIG ART UNION.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1926, Page 8

DRAWING OF A BIG ART UNION.

FAIR CHANGE FOR ALL. POLICE SUPERVISION. la view of the early drawing of the Kia Ora Art Union (the final Art Union with a Prize List of £5.000) which is being definitely drawn on December 14, in Cambridge, it will be 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 5-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 colour for each one of the five figures on the ticket, the bags being the same colour as the marbles. This means that the marbles cannot be mixed. Each marble is replaced in its own bag after each draw, thus affording an opportunity of the same number winning further prizes. Before the marbles are replaced in their bags 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 C. Then members of the audience or officials each draw in rotation a marble from each one of the five coloured bags. Of these five bags, the one on the left contains only the numbers 2 to 9. Suppose “2” is drawn, then “2” will be 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 drawn—-say, a 5. From the third bag say a “7,” from the fourth bag perhaps a “3,” and from the fifth bag say an “8.” Thus we have C 25738. When the alphabetical letter and the five figures have been drawn, the numbers 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. Everyone will admit that the process is a simple one, and without doubt the fairest for all concerned. By means of the Kia Ora Book-keeping 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 £2OOO on December 14, and on the afternoon of that day the magic marbles will respond to the call of those whom fortune favours. Y'ou might be one! Get your tickets to-day—-get a book of nine and secure 1260 chances. Look for the Maori Mascot and the Double Butt. The objects of the Kia Ora Art Union are for beautifying and improving the Cambridge and Leamington Domain and Public Gardens.* There is no halo to the. martyrdom of rehumatism. Those stiff and painful joints, can be remedied by Rheumo (large bottles 4/6). All allied complaints—gout, lumbago, sciatica—similarly banished. Rheumo is sold everywhere.