A NOVEL GAMBLE.
HOTELKEEPER'S SCHEME. A PREMIUM OX BRINKS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 22, 10.5 p.m. January 22. The licensee of the Ararat Hotel was charged with betting on licensed l premises. He isMueil coupons to purchasers of drinks, guaranteeing to pay a pound to those placing correctly the first three horses in the .Melbourne Cup. Six coupons were correctly marked, one customer filling in two. About fifteen Hundred coupons were issued. The defence was that it was not a betting transaction, inasmuch as the. defendant had nothing to gain and the eouponites nothing to lose. The case was dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 209, 23 January 1913, Page 5
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101A NOVEL GAMBLE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 209, 23 January 1913, Page 5
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