GAME OF CHANCE
'FRUIT'’ VENDING -MACHINKS TUBACGDN IST FJNED to ]0 (Dross Association.) AUCKLAND. Get. 11. Whether mint vending or “fruit’' machines. which have been operated in several tobacconist shops in Auckland, are games of chance, and whether the premises in which ‘they arc operated may be termed common gaming houses, were questions argued by counsel before Mr Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court, when Eric Phillip Goldsboro, aged Ml, tobacconist. was charged, that being the occupier of a shop in Newmarket lie kept the premises as a common gaming house: The prosecution contended that success in obtaining sweets from tbc machines was luck not skill, while the defence contended that skill was necessary. “I am told than so much money is involved in those machines that the matter will be taken to the. Supreme Court', whatever ray decision may be", said the magistrate. ‘‘Similar cases have twice been before the courts in New Zealand, and on both occasions the magistrates considered the machines games of chance. 1 have heard the evidence, seen the machines, and have seen so-called expert's using the machine, and L am satisfied they ar t > games of chance. Defendant was fined to 10s. Security for appeal was fixed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11765, 12 October 1932, Page 7
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