LICENSING CASES.
PLAYING CARDS FOR DRINKS IS GAMBLING. EXIT ‘'BONA FIDE TRAVELLER.’ (Per Press Association.)
Christchurch, Saturday. Mr Justice Cooper gave judgment this morning in the appeal case Fuller v. Fonghy, in which the legality of playing games of cards in hotels for drinks was the point at issue. His Honor held whore ohance was one of the elements of a particular gamo, and where that game was played for money or money’s worth, ploying at that game wob gambling within tho meaning of section 44 of the 1904 Act. The appeal was dismissed. In the caso in which S. Brooking, liconsee of the Sumner Hotel, appealed from a conviction for supplying HquUr at a time when the hotel should be closed to persons who under a previous Act would be bona fide travellers, his Honor held that appellant was not lawfully entitled to supply men with liquor. He held, also, that the “ bona fide traveller ” had ceased to exist so far as obtaining liquor was concerned. The appeal was dismissed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1460, 22 May 1905, Page 2
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