AN UNFAIR HOOP-LA.
PROSECUTION AT HAMILTON. CONVICTION AND FINE. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] HAMILTON, Tuesday. The proprietor of a hoop-la entertainment at the Waikato Winter • Show. George Carian, was convicted by Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., C.M.GI, in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day for conducting a game of chance and was fined £lO., His brother and assistant, Andrew Carian, was convicted and discharged. In the course of his reserved judgment Mr. Platts said it had been demonstrated that some of the rings used by the accused were too small to fit round the tin squares on which the best prizes were fixed; others required pressure to make them encircle these squares: Some rings had been broken and repaired with the result that they became elliptical. It was manifest that played with such_ apparatus the game was not one in which skill could succeed, and that winning a prize must depend upon chance. Certainly the element of chance must greatly predominate over skill. That distinguished the case from Keane v. Wachtner, where the Court held that if skill was the determining factor in the game then it was not a game of chance. The accused had conducted a game of chance in a manner that was unfair to the public. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19040, 10 June 1925, Page 11
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208AN UNFAIR HOOP-LA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19040, 10 June 1925, Page 11
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