“FLY LOO.”
“The love of betting is inherent in human nature, and we can t legislate to stop it,” observed Mr Rutherford, speaking last week of the totalisator. In proof of this, he pointed out -what is done at the hack stations by the station hands who have no pack of cards hand\u They resort in these circumstances to a game called “flyloo,” which Mr Rutherford kindly explained'to the House. It seems that to each man is allotted a little heap . f sugar, and as the players patiently wait in front of these heaps, the man on whose heap a fly first lights “scoops the pool.” To show that the totalisator was not responsible for the increase in gambling, Mr Rutherford naively informed the House that once when he was walking ;in High street, Christchurch, he heard one bootmaker say to another that he had been up to Lancaster Park and “stiffened all the bikes.” “And there was no totalisator there,” remained the member for Hurunui.
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Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 202, 28 July 1903, Page 3
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