GAMES IN HOTELS.
MAGISTRATE'S WARNING. (By Telegraph. — Own Correspondent.) HAMILTOX, Thursday. A warning to hotel licensees that the practice of placiliir panics in hotel hare as encouragement for patrons to loiter in the bars and drink more rendered them liable to prosecution and loss of lici-nsi! war; ;_'jveii hy Mr. S. Jj. Patterson, S.M., chairman of the Hamilton Liffiiiiiiig Coniniitt<"o, at a meeting toiliiv.
In explaining 'the use of frame*. Mr. Pattpixm said that the method was for a orowd of players to poo] a certain sum and tlit' player who won the pool shouted drink-; t<» tlio cither players with that money. He rontfid-fM'Pil tliat in tho moaiiiiiLr of tS# LicciisiiiLT Act i-uoli practice deriiiitflj. #onetituted gambling.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 128, 2 June 1939, Page 14
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