The 1977 Gaming and Lotteries Act defined charity as including any purpose ‘beneficial to the community or any section of it’. Thus it had a wide application-too wide according to some critics. Groups concerned with sports and recreation, culture, the arts, film, the nation’s heritage, youth, the aged, community development, medical and scientific research, as […]

Video poker and slots provide a large part of the “jack” to grow the “greenstalk” to support the giant “castles” that seem to spring up in areas where they become a legalized “recreation.” No wonder the new resort builders are returning to famous fairy tales as themes for their mega-resort clubs.
Video poker combines the skill […]

Post-mortems and rabbit hunting slow down a poker game and should be discouraged. If a rabbit hunter proves himself to be too much of a nuisance in a serious poker group, the players are better off without him. One way to rid the group of such a player is to move (or Boat) the game […]

In August 1966 Victorian Premier Harold Bolte sought to extend the running of Tattersalls lotteries in New Zealand for a further three years from June 1967 and, he hoped, for longer. As an incentive he proposed a new arrangement whereby New Zealand took 60 percent of the tax take and Victoria 40 percent. Holyoake rejected […]