"HOOP-LA."
WITH ELIPTICAL RINGS. A GAME OF CHANCE. PROSECUTION AT HAMILTON. (By Telegraph.-Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. A "hoop la' , merchant, named George Carian and an assistant, Andrew Carian, pleaded not guilty in Court yesterday to i charge of conducting a game of chance at the Winter Show. The police alleged that several of the objects were too big to permit or ringing, and that the game, therefore, was not fair to the public. The defence submitted that rings of different sizes from adjacent stalls had become mixed with theirs, and that in any case the police could produce only five objects amongst eighty arranged on the table. The magistrate (Mr. Platts). in giving a considered decision to-day, said that some of the hoops were too small to lit around the squares, as, through having been broken or repaired, they had become eliptical. Played with such apparatus the game was not one in which skill would succeed. The winning of a prize depended on chance. Defendant was fined £IU.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 134, 9 June 1925, Page 5
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