ART UNION TICKETS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1929, Page 3

ART UNION TICKETS

EQUAL CHANCE FOR ALT

USE OF DUPLICATE BUTTS. The winner of the first prize of £2O; 0 in the Auckland Aero Club’s art union, Mrs E. Stone, has lately been employed as a housekeeper ai Pahiatua. She is an old resident of the district and has brought up ' large family. She obtained the ticket through the Napier Agency. It has been published that Ain Stone forwarded the hutt of the 1 idiot 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 thaf the checking-up shows that every ticket sold participated in the ballot. The duplicate butts were provided simply to give the purchaser a means of satisfying himself that the original butts had been returned. They serv ed no .useful purpose so far as Die internal working of the Art Union was concerned.

The checks and records kept by the staff engaged for the art union wor° independent of the return of any or all of the duplicates. Indexed books were kept in which appeared the. nmn-Iv'-rs of everv hook of tickets issued. When tile ticket-hook passed out iff the organiser’s hands a mark was made in the record Ibook and who" the butts of the tickets were returned another entry was made. When dunlieate butts were sent in the nnin--1)0rs were looked up in the record li-'-ok and the original butts located. The organiser was then able to advise the inquirer that the transaction was conuilete and that the seller of the book had returned the butts. The officials, however, • traced the outgoing 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 book 4 ' or butts. Through inevitable Procrastination a few butts were galliered in only at, the eleventh hour, bid the Aero Glob officials fuiallv s>>cr.p'vled in calling in all that had been issued.