What is Pakapoo?

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10298, 19 July 1907, Page 1

What is Pakapoo?

GAME OF CCBAiNOB, OR ioTTERiY. ■ CAiSE BEFORE ,APPEAiL, ; , (Per United Press Association.) 1 WBLLrNGTON,. July 1». i The «a^e of Joe Gee 'j. William* was heardi ihe, Full. Bet^h ait the • Supre^jCourt | to-day. ■''""'■'. The appelknt was convicted, and fined £100 at Wellington ad a charge' of selling; a ticket for paltepoo. For! the. defence it'^ras cbnteMed that pakapop. was a.game.,6l' dKaiioe and not a lottiery, aip tha/t the infdrmatiqn .was.kid unt^er ,a w^bng section , of, the^ Act.' There Waß no joreof that any, pottery did take plaoe, [and tibat I pakapoo is not a r g^me r "o|;A|ance~by j which prizes are grained within the mieamn^;of.^e'^&:;"7^"':'. ■ I The Magisirate over-ruled these I contentions, and an appeal was lodged. Ab somewhat conflicting judgments had been given; toy Justices Stout and ; Williams on the game of-'pakapoo the case was heard, by the full Bench. Mr Chapman, X.0., and Mir T, iWilfordi for the appellant and Mk* Myers for the .respondent. j

Mr ■ Chapman opened slthe case on the lines of the defence;in the lower Court ■: ■, ■' -:::--':

The hearing; of the case was unfinished tb-day. ■ r