FORTUNE-TELLING
FINE OF £3 IMPOSED By Telegraph—Press Association PALMERSTON N., August 10 Arthur Hill (48) posing as a numerologist, was fined £3 in the Magistrate’s Court for telling fortunes. Police witnesses testified that they isited defendant who predicted certar events to happen to them. Defendant said that the principle of numerology was to take the name and birth date. Each letter had a numerical value and interpretations gave an understanding whether a person would live constructively, destructively or negatively through life. He did not refer to the future except as a guide to individuals to lu r e constructively and tell people whether it would be wise to bring their thoughts into material expression or not. The Magistrate said he considered the system employed, even if it did not tell the future, would leave that impression with many, and so brought defendant imder the Act just as it brought teacup readers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20493, 11 August 1936, Page 6
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151FORTUNE-TELLING Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20493, 11 August 1936, Page 6
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