Pool, snooker, etc

Poverty Bay Herald, 13 October 1897

A GAME AT CARDS

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Mr Rees said there was no dispute about the facts. It was just a question as to what a publican was allowed to do on his licensed premises. An information had been laid under one section of the Act and evidence was given which would have supported an information under section 149. He quoted a case in which it was laid down that a game of euchre played for money was not an unlawful game under that section, in which cards was nowhere mentioned as being an unlawful game. As to section 155, in winch billiards, or bagatelle, “or any other game” was prohibited from being played after the hour of closing, he contended that, being preceded by the words, “billiards or bagatelle,” “game” could only include games of a like nature, such as pool, snooker, etc., and quoted a case in which the Chief Justice and the late Mr Justice Richmond had ruled that games of cards were not included in the term, “or any other game.” …