CHANCE OR SKILL?
9 GUESSING CONTENTS OF JAR.'' fßy Telegra-ph-Press Association.) Wanganui, August 6. A judgment having a far-reaching effect if allowed to stand was given by Mr. Iforr, S.M., this morning, in a case under tho Gaming Act against a local confectioner, for allegedly establishing a lottery. Defendant exhibited in a window a glass globe full of small lollies,.and customers spending a shilling had a chanco of calculating the number in the jar, the prize being a guinea. Tho police alleged that this was a game of chance, whilo defendant claimed that it was a gnino of skill. The information was dis-
missed. An appeal is probable.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1512, 7 August 1912, Page 6
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108CHANCE OR SKILL? Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1512, 7 August 1912, Page 6
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