Referring to a case in which a Chinese was fined £100 for selling a pakapoo ticket, Christchurch Truth says :—" Pakapoo, from an account ot the modus operandi of the ' bank,' -.'.appears to Ik* a kind of lottery which beats all records in the length of the odds against the holder of the ticket. For the niajot prizes these work out at- about 750,000 to 1. Still there are always those who have a sufficiently exalted opinion of their luck to take the chances, and the State is evidently anxious to protect them from their folly." A number of informations have been laid at the instance of the Collector of Customs at Invemugill against whiiebaiters. who, it i« alleged, recently used nets "above 1 the legal size. '* •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13303, 9 October 1906, Page 4
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