Housie

Aficionados continued to play housie for the rest of the decade, but always under the threat of criminal prosecution.

She ran raffles, card games and housie to raise money for Māori welfare.

Thursday night was housie night at St Monica′s hall.

2010, Michael Caulfield (editor), The Voices of War: Australians Tell Their Stories from World War I to the Present, unumbered page, He was very officious—universally hated—and bingo, then called housie, was illegal, because we had a housie game and we used to play this on deck and we were all up on deck in our shorts and we′d give warning if he was coming.