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Kōrero: Gambling

Banning fan-tan

This 1895 cartoon points out the hypocrisy of a proposed government social reform to ban the Chinese game of fan-tan while turning a blind eye to European gambling activities.

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National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past

Reference: New Zealand Observer and Free Lance, 13 July 1895, p. 17 (N-P-1729-17)

by William Blomfield

Permission of the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Grant, Gambling – Opponents and social impact, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/39450/banning-fan-tan (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Grant, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.