Prize Euchre Parties

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7009, 19 November 1932, Page 6

Prize Euchre Parties

PROTECTION SOUGHT FOR FUNCTIONS IN AID OF SCHOOLS. Per Press Association. ■WELLINGTON, Nov. 18. In moving in the House to-day for leave to introduce the School Committees’ Facilities Bill, Mr R. McKeen (Lab., Wellington S.), said the measure sought to legalise prize euchre parties and other card tournaments held with the object of raising funds for school purposes. It would make it lawful for any school committee, home and school association, or parents’ association, upon receiving a permit from the Minister of Justice, to conduct such games as euchre, five hundred, whist, cribbag-e or bridge for the purpose of raising money. The provisions of the Gaming Act under which prize euchre parties were now illegal would not then apply to any game played under a permit issued by the Minister. Mr McKeen said that, although theso provisions were adopted in 1908, it was only in recent years that exception had been taken to euchre tournaments, and he was of opinion that such exception was not designed to operate against school committees, but, against private individuals and companies who were conducting tournaments.