CĂRȚI ÎN ENGLEZĂ ÎN LEGĂTURĂ CU «PAKAPOO»
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pakapoo în următoarea selecție bibliografică. Cărți în legătură cu
pakapoo și extrase din aceasta pentru a furniza contextul de întrebuințare al acestuia în literatura Engleză.
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Kel Richards' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Any writingthatisdifficult to decipher was once labelled a pakapoo ticket. I
remember being told, as a child in school, 'This exercise book looks like a
pakapoo ticket, Richards.' From that use it was extendedto describe anything that
wasuntidy or ...
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On a Roll: A History of Gambling and Lotteries in New Zealand
Pakapoo was enormously popular among Chinese in colonial New Zealand. In
their bigger communities such as Round Hill (Canton), there could be up to five
lotteries a day. Store-keepers employed ticket-sellers who walked from claim to ...
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Unfolding History, Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand
Pakapoo ticket, actual size (96x8517101), green ink on newsprint. made and
kept by the agent.50 There were several draws a day, and winnings were paid in
proportion to the number of characters that corresponded with the master ticket, ...
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
like a pakapoo, ticket. like a onearmed paperchangers with crabs. like a pakapoo
, ticket. See: pakapoo ticket. like a possum up a gum tree. See: possum....
likeapakapoo, ticket. See: pakapoo ticket. like a possum upagum tree. See:
possum....
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The abridgement of New Zealand case law
Williams (1907 ) 26 N.Z.L.R. 1016; 9 G.L.R. 658. 26. Keeping a house where
Chinese game of pakapoo is played — Place where game played — "Drawing"
— Selling tickets — Faying over winnings—Gaming and Lotteries Act 1881, s. 10.
Herbert Jenner Wily,
2003
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The New Zealand Law Reports
Pakapoo tickets, and brushes, ink, and stamps used for marking pakapoo tickets,
are not instruments of gaming within s. 7. Tickets were described as pakapoo
tickets by a senior sergeant of police, who stated that in the course of his duty he
...
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The Magistrates' Court Reports
1916, January 27, February 4. Before D. G. A. Cooper, Esq., S.M., at Wellington.
Gaming Act, 1908, sections 3, 4, and 12—Using premises as a common gaming
house. Where it is proved that the occupier of premises had sold pakapoo tickets
...
New Zealand. Magistrates' Courts,
1916
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From Silence to Voice: The Rise of Maori Literature
In 'Pakapoo' Turi visits his old friend Penny Watene in Auckland. Unemployed,
skinny and sick, Penny lives in an unhealthy, crumbling house in the slums
stealing money from his 14-year-old sister, whom he has taken out of school and
...
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Disputed Ground: Robin Hyde, Journalist
Auckland's pakapoo dens receive such loving care from the police for much the
same reason. No harm in a friendly all-Chinese game of fantan or pakapoo —
and ninety-nine games out of a hundred are 'on the level ' — but the drawing of
the ...
Robin Hyde, Gillian Boddy,
1991
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From Silence to Voice: The Rise of Maori Literature
In'Pakapoo' Turi visits his old friend Penny Watene in Auckland. Unemployed,
skinny andsick, Penny livesin an unhealthy, crumbling houseinthe slums stealing
moneyfrom his 14yearold sister, whomhehas taken outofschool and employed in
...
ȘTIRI NOI CARE INCLUD TERMENUL «PAKAPOO»
Află ce ziare naționale și internaționale au scris despre și cum este întrebuințat termenul
pakapoo în contextul următoarelor știri.
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Pakapoo – a Chinese lottery, not another breed of dog. • Amphoric – pertaining to the sound of blowing in a bottle. I love that there's a word for it ... «The Guardian, Mai 15»
Flashback: Balls get spinning on Lotto
Cunnigham had probably learned of the Chinese game of pakapoo – the same game played by a young man named Allan Highet in Haining St ... «Stuff.co.nz, Apr 15»
Style Invitational Week 1090: Talk undirty to us, in a poem with a …
... Jerkinhead * Knobstick * Lobcocked * Nestle-cock * Nicker-pecker * Nobber * Nodgecock * Pakapoo * Peniaphobia * Penistone * Pershittie ... «Washington Post, Sep 14»
Opium dens, gambling and murder
Pakapoo, a popular Chinese lottery game, and other similar Chinese gambling games, were deemed illegal until 1974. When that law was ... «The Dominion Post, Apr 13»