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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4898, 18 June 1918, Page 5

The judiciary is not as a rule willin cr to admit that it has any personofficial or otherwise, o o-ames of cards into which the elements of chance or gambling may enter. Recently, when the N.S.W. Supreme Court was asked to determine whether poker is or is not a game of chance, the presiding judge scarcely appeared to have a nodding acquaintance with the game. He said vaguely that he had heard or read something which inclined him to the belief that the origin of the word was in some wav associated witn the devil. Judge Wasley, in- hearing the dispute between the doctors and the friendly societies, made open confession of his familiarity with the game o£ poker. A ftness ST ed the number 11,100. A lUI J hand,” ‘his Honor remarked and there was laughter in the court. . Mr M‘Arthur, counsel for the. doctors, afterwards excused himself for causing the judge a moment s delay, explaining that he was engrossed inutile ‘‘full hand” to which his Honor had directed attention. Broncho Breeches at W. H. Oamp- [ bell’s, best quality, 57s 6d.*