A GAME OF POKER.
By Telegraph—Pres3 Association. Wanganui, last night. At the Police Court to-day, the Magistrate (Mr Kettle) dismissed the information charging an hotelkeeper with permitting an unlawful game, to wit poker, to be played on his licensed premises, contrary to section 149. Following the case of Glasson and Whitely, decided by Justice Johnston in 1883, the Magistrate held that poker had not been provided by the statute, and was not unlawful unless played in a gaming house. Ho pointed out that tho word “ gaining ” in the corresponding section of the English Act of 1872 had been omitted, probably accidentally, in the New Zealand Act of 1881, and suggested that the attention of the Legislature should be drawn to the state of the law with regard to gaming or gambling in hotels. Two other informations for gambling the same evening, “poker” and “Chinese banker,” were withdrawn by the police owing to the Magistrate’s decision.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 908, 5 June 1903, Page 2
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